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October 16, 1954

The Hockey News October 16, 1954

<h2>Big Helpings</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ahe Powell of Quebec Aces tuck an immediate lead in the point-getting department, although never once in weekend play did he put a puck in the net. Instead he rated four helpings to go ahead of the pack on points. Watters of Ottawa came right behind him with one goal, two consists.</p><h2>Take Early Lead</h2><p>Ottawa Senators Jumped into an early lead as the Quebec league season opened over the weekend. With stalwart Kay Frederick in goal, the Senators journied to Montreal to meet Fete Morin&rsquo;s Royals, figured by some early-season experts as too tough for Boucher&rsquo;s boys. Actual results proved different. Ottawa won, 6-3.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OCT. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01134/1123750-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="608" height="190"></div><h3>BUNDAY OCT 10 Ottawa 6, Montreal 3</h3><p><b>Ottawa:</b> Goal: Frederick; defense; Copp, Lepine, Arundel, Robertson; forwards: Gravelle, Campeau, Johnson, Clark, Watters, Kuntz, Maloney, Bobenfe, Poland, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Rousseau, Roche, Harmon, McKay: farwards: Blaine, Martan, Davis, Frampton, Tessier, Burchell, Burnett, Denis, La plante, Shvetz.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Gravel; linesmen; Jim Slater and Bill Sleeth,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02104/1123743-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="606" height="928"></div><p><b>Quebec 8, Chicoutimi 4</b></p><p><b>QUEBEC</b>&mdash;The Quebec Aces overcame a 4-1 deficit to defeat a poorly-conditioned Chicoutimi team 5-4 in overtime in the opener of the Quebec Hockey Lea-Que season before 8,200 fans.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Hughes; defense: Claude, Taillefer, Roy, S. Smrke; forwards: Levesque, Dube, Locas, Leger, L. Smrke, Toppall, Dussault, Groleau, Moore, Bartlett.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defense: Hay, Crozier, Tennant, Ehman; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady, Regan, Johnson, Thibault, Uniac, Buchanan, Powell, Lagadie, Giesebrecht.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Charlie Deziel; linesmen: Rene Simard, Guido Roy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0457/1123736-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="600" height="1082"></div><p><b>Valley field 2, Shawinigan Falls 1</b></p><p>Andre Corriveau scored a pair of goals to ruin Shawinigan Falls&rsquo; return to the Quebec Hockey League and lead Valleyfiled to a 2-1 opening-day victory.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Talbot, Leger, Hodgson, Lamirande, Turner; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, Grosse, F. Perreault, Faulkner, Broden, Tkachuk, Provost, Denis.</p><p><b>Valleyfield: Goal:</b> Payette: defense: Heller, Ernst, Deslauriers, Collins, Needham; forwards: Joannette, Corriveau, Bougie, Poetta, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Jones.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bibbey Mundey; linesmen: Percy Reynolds, Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0623/1123729-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="596" height="502"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1954 Montreal 6 at Three Rivers 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0720/1123722-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="600" height="635"></div><p><b>Quebec 8 at Jonqulere 3</b></p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Marcotte; defense: Hardinson, Amadio, Lemay, J. Rousseau, Bradley; forwards: Leger, G. Rousseau, Prestley, Dumouchel, Bouchard, Denomm&eacute;, Huneault, Alingham, Luck.</p><p><b>Jonqulere:</b> Goal: Johnson; defense: Pelchat, Delbosco, Szydlowsky, Brassard, Garant; forwards: Pruneault, Morin, Carter, Dejordy, Caron, Rossek, Laforest, Deskales, Coates, Langevin, McDonald, Tremblay.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Corriveau; linesmen: Levesque, Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-099/1123715-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="598" height="797"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OCT. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-109/1123708-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="606" height="968"></div><h2>Starting Off On The Right Note</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0380/1123701-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="600" height="924"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES LOCAS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0539/1123694-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="572" height="1188"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MICHEL LABADIE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0811/1123687-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="560" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0194/1122169-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>fter all the votes were totalled, here&rsquo;s how the six teams in the NHL finished up in the poll of sports writers around the loop. Table shows the number of votes each team got for the various positions and the final total based on six points for first, five for second, four for third, three for fourth, two for fifth and one for sixth.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Crystal Gazing At A Glance

<div class="byline">by JIM VIPOND</div><p><b>(Toronto Globe & Mail)</b></p><p>JIM NORRIS is a handy type citizen to have drop into town on the eve of a holiday weekend on which the accent is once again focused on the overlapping of seasons as represented by full schedules of football, hockey and thoroughbred racing.</p><p>Big Jim&rsquo;s Interest in sports are manifold. He is president of the International Boxing Club, operates a successful racing stable and is chairman of the board of Chicago Black Hawks. Had financial editor Ralph Blackmore desired it, we might have picked up a few quotes on the wheat and Great Lakes shipping situations.</p><p>It&rsquo;s not often Jim Norris visits our town. A revitalized interest in hockey in Chicago has him with the new look Black Hawks on their first road trip, and he&rsquo;ll probably be out at Long Branch on Monday to watch his Dr. Stanley run in Fred Orpen&rsquo;s $27,000 Canadian championship.</p><p>In the interim he&rsquo;ll return to Chicago for the Sunday night introduction of this completely reorganized team and the roster of newcomers, from Manager Tommy Ivan through Coach Frankie Eddolls to latest acquisition Ray Timgren is certainly worthy of a warmly supported homecoming.</p><p>&ldquo;Only 69 games left to play,&rdquo; Norris laughed as he huddled with his busy little general manager, Tommy Ivan, a man Conn Smythe a few minutes earlier paid tribute to as &ldquo;working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to bring hockey back in Chicago.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re off to a tough start with Larry Wilson and Gus Mortson out with injuries,&rdquo; remarked Thomas. &ldquo;I thought our boys played well in Montreal although we lost our first game 4-2. You know we&rsquo;ll be trying.&rdquo;</p><p>Big Jim nodded in agreement. &ldquo;We dropped $200,000 last season and we&rsquo;re prepared to spend another $200,000 this year if we can find good players for sale.&rdquo;</p><p>When Big Jim gets out the broom he does a thorough job of sweeping and it wouldn&rsquo;t be surprising to hear a couple of decks of gin rummy cards hit the garbage can.</p><p>In Tommy Ivan he acquired a general manager with a reputation for hard work. Frankie Eddolls served a successful apprenticeship as coach of the American League Buffalo Bisons. The former Montreal and New York player, who was originally involved in the deal with Canadiens in which the Leafs won Teeder Kennedy, rules with a stern hand.</p><p><b>A perspiring Ike Hildebrand, on his weary way to the dressing room after yesterday&rsquo;s workout, made the mistake of stopping to shake hands with a couple of newsmen. Frankie, cracking the condition whip over half a dozen skating bodies, spotted him and yelled: &ldquo;Come here, Ike.&rsquo;&rsquo; So back to work went the great little lacrosse player who is anxious to prove he&rsquo;s a major leaguer in hockey, too.</b></p><p>Before climbing the stairs to the top row of the blues to chat with C. Smythe about hockey and/or horses he refused to pick the winner of Monday&rsquo;s big race but promised that Or. Stanley would turn up and give it a try.</p><p>As for the boxing picture, he&rsquo;s not too happy about the heavyweight situation but said it could be worse. As for James J. Parker and Earl Walls who will clash for the Canadian heavyweight title here next month, we thought Big Jim liked the Barrie citizen a little better than Walls.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;Parker&rsquo;s a spoiler,&rdquo; said Norris. &ldquo;As for Walls, I don&rsquo;t know. He has a good fight and then gets beaten by a man he should be able to take care of.&rdquo;</p><p>With that Norris climbed the stairs and the telephone sent Ivan arunning, &ldquo;I live on the telephone these days and when they turn me down I keep telling them I&rsquo;m like McCarthy&mdash;I&rsquo;ll be back.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Yesterday Smythe made his retirement as manager of the Leafs official in everything but name. Although he still has enough business interests to keep several executives occupied he said the pressure of hockey was too much to take. &ldquo;It made Lester Patrick punchy and he knew it and got out,&rdquo; he laughed &ldquo;It made Art Ross punchy, too, but lie wouldn&rsquo;t admit it.&rdquo;</b></p><p>&ldquo;What,&rdquo; whispered a voice in our car, &ldquo;am I getting into?&rdquo; It was Hap Day, acting general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Take it away Clarence and jolly good luck go with you!</p><p>Obliging man, that Smythe. At the start of his press conference he mentioned our published request for a couple of winners at Long Branch and passed along Clipper B and Broad Bend. Clipper B won the sixth race yesterday and we&rsquo;ll be watching Broad Bend in the seventh this afternoon.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sports Digest

<p>National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the 1954-55 N.H.L. Schedules free of charge.</p><p>These N.H.L. schedules are handy sized for the pocket and room is available to mark in the score of each game.</p><p><b>Requests should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

N.H.L. SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR FANS

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They Call ’em As They See ’em

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Each year at this time, <b>THE HOCKEY NEWS</b> takes unfair advantage of a panel of sports writers, hockey news correspondents and telecasters around the six National Hockey League cities.</p><p>It takes unfair advantage of them in this manner. It asks them to pick what they consider the order of finish in the NHL will be when the teams have completed the 70-game schedule.</p><p>Impossible you say? Not at all is the reply. For this reason. These boys spend enough time around the rinks during the off season to know what&rsquo;s going on. How do they arrive at these fearless conclusions? Very often, their modus operandi differs. In some instances, they take the team&rsquo;s record of the previous year, make allowances for old age, give credit marks for promising rookies, divide their net result by the hand of fate and presto, a spanking new selection for the 1954-55 season.</p><p>This year, THE HOCKEY NEWS called in 18 experts. They hummed, hawed and with the occasional loud guffaw, broke down their tower of iced iron and came up with their precious picks.</p><p>The results you&rsquo;ll find listed individually on Page Three.</p><p>Once all the results were in. THE HOCKEY NEWS called in a battery of higher mathematicians and engaged them for the sole purpose of deciphering the code and calculating, on a points system, which team was entitled to be placed on top of the list and thus jinxed for another year. The honor befell the world champion Detroit Red Wings, who have successfully ridden out many jinx years in the past.</p><p>The boys with the sharp pencils and brains to match, next decided that the Montreal Canadian&middot; should be placed right behind the&middot; champions. This deduction didn&rsquo;t represent the ultimate in mathematical equations since the voters accorded Canadiens just enough points to nose out the Toronto Maple Leafs and not enough to overtake the Red Wings. If our mathematicians should feel the least bit slighted because we showed the audacity to pre-conclude their hard arrived at decisions, we hasten to point out we cheated. We looked at the final standing of selections on page three.</p><p>The experts weren&rsquo;t the least bit fooled by Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s efforts to cross them up this year by converting practically every able-bodied skater to a new position before the season began.</p><p>Their general opinion was that Patrick could keep right on switching left wingers to right, right wingers to left, centres to both wings and defensemen to and fro and the mathematical equation wouldn&rsquo;t vary.</p><p>Their logic was simple enough. &ldquo;A 20-goal scorer is a 20-goal scorer regardless of whether he plays left, right or centre.&rdquo; And they added, &ldquo;You can even dress Milt Schmidt up in a deep-sea diver&rsquo;s uniform and change his number, but you &lsquo;aint (taking liberties) going to fool anybody. Schmidt is Schmidt regardless of how you want to slice it.&rdquo; For those reasons they eased the Bruins into the last playoff spot.</p><p>Ah then, how about fifth and sixth places. Here the struggle was a little closer. The boys had a rough time deciding whether the Rangers, with their juggling of lines and new faces were a better bet for fifth than the Chicago Black Hawks who can&rsquo;t be recognized without a programme.</p><p>They gave the Rangers the nod, working on the theory that while the Hawks will be a much improved team over last season&rsquo;s motley crew, they still won&rsquo;t be strong enough to challenge the speedy Rangers.</p><p>So there they are, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, Boston, New York and Chicago. That&rsquo;s the way 18 experts from the banks of the St. Lawrence to the shores of Lake Michigan see it. Are they right? Hang on fella, they&rsquo;ve got until next March to have their theories disproved!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HN Experts Pick Detroit, Montreal, Leafs This Year

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When the Boston Bruins announced the acquisition of Murray Costello from the Chicago Black Hawks the other day, the announcement climaxed a campaign of months.</p><p>Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, reveals that he first made overtures for the tall forward early last spring.</p><p>&ldquo;When I watched the Hershey Bears in the American League playoffs last spring,&rdquo; related Patrick, &ldquo;the two Hershey forwards who impressed me the most were Lorne Ferguson and Costello. We already had Ferguson, so I decided to try to get Costello, who was on loan from Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;But I couldn&rsquo;t get anyplace with the Chicago management until Lee Fogolin was hurt the other day. They needed a defenseman then, so I was able to get Costello for Frank Martin.&rdquo;</p><p>The 20-year old Costello&rsquo;s status with the Bruins hasn&rsquo;t been made clear as yet, for he joined the team just before it broke training camp at Hershey.</p><p>Tallest of the Bruins at six-feet-three, Costello is only two years out of junior hockey, which he played at St, Michael&rsquo;s School in Toronto. He played half the season for Chicago a year ago, finishing the year with Hershey and scoring seven goals, making four more in the playoffs.</p><p>To Insure the Bruins of a backlog of young defensemen after the departure of the 21-year old Martin, Patrick signed two strapping youngsters to their first professional contracts for Hershey employment. One is Don Cherry, formerly of the Barrie (Ont.) Flyers, the other Lionel Heinrich from Kitchener, Ont. Also signed were Center Stan Parker and Right Wing Fred Pletsch.</p><h2><b>He Was Needed</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0544/1122076-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="572" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LORNE FERGUSON</b></figcaption></div><h2>He Was Dispensable</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0631/1122069-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="560" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK MARTIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Lynn Had Fergy, Needed Murray, Sent Martin To Hawks In a Hurry

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When the Bruins opened their season with the Montreal Canadiens the other night, a horde of hockey experts of all degrees of qualification here shook their heads in disbelief and moaned, &ldquo;Oh, my aching prediction!&rdquo;</p><p>There, starting his 16th season with the Bruins, was the athlete who was retired by near-unanimous opinion last spring, Capt. Milt Schmidt.</p><p>Speculating on the date of Schmidt&rsquo;s retirement has been a leading pastime here for the past several years, but never were predictions made as freely as they were last spring.</p><p>In late April the Bruins&rsquo; new organizational setup, prompted by the retirement as general manager of Art Ross, was explained in detail.</p><p>&lsquo;Under the setup, Lynn Patrick was to be both coach and manager until Schmidt was ready to retire as a player. At that time Schmidt would become the coach and Patrick would devote his full time to work in the front office.</p><p>&ldquo;There,&rdquo; the experts agreed, is the end of Milt&rsquo;s playing career. When the season opens in fall, he&rsquo;ll be running the team from the bench. He won&rsquo;t play again.&rdquo;</p><p>But the 36-year old warhorse has crossed them up again, for no one but he is wearing his familiar Number 15 jersey this Fall.</p><p>Patrick himself called the shot on his heir-apparent nearly two &lsquo;weeks before the Bruins finished their training at Hershey, Pa., and the Bruins&rsquo; coach did it without realizing that he was creating news here.</p><p>Asked Schmidt&rsquo;s status for the opening game, Patrick replied:</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be playing, of course, and regularly. Why, I couldn&rsquo;t keep him off the ice if I wanted to.</p><p>&ldquo;The closest he has come to not playing was during our first exhibition game with the Hershey Bears. I wanted to watch specific players, so I sat in the stands for the purpose and he ran the Bruins from the bench.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked how Schmidt had looked in practice, Patrick&rsquo;s tone became indignant, and he answered, &ldquo;Just the same as he has always looked. He doesn&rsquo;t lose a thing from year to year.&rdquo;</p><p>Uncle Miltie spun the clock back a long way on opening night. He&rsquo;s the dean of National leaguers now, with Woody Dumart gone, and he has five years&rsquo; seniority over veterans like Montreal&rsquo;s Butch Bouchard and Ken Mosdell, Detroit&rsquo;s Bob Goldham and Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Watson.</p><p>Here he is the last remaining ling&mdash;with Trainers Win Green and Hammy Moore&mdash;with the pre-war Bruins. Some of the players with whom he played in his early years here are grandfathers today. The only other Bruins&rsquo; player with a pre-war background is Sugar Jim Henry, the goal-tender who was working for the New York Rangers then.</p><p>Actually, at no time in recent years has Schmidt shown any signs of deterioration physically, He has had injuries which have stirred speculation on retirement, but his powerful physique hasn&rsquo;t softened in the least.</p><p>He started the season weighing his customary 183 pounds and only a man with true gambling instinct will wager that he won&rsquo;t finish it at that weight&mdash;as a player.</p><h2><i>Still Together</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0376/1122114-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="289" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0457/1122107-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="304" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins’ No. 15 Starts 16th Season As Dean of NHL Vets’Brigade

<p>PORT PERRY, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Jack Benny and a bugle were the only props necessary to make the Port Perry Arena a perfect setting for a cloud scene from &ldquo;A Horn Blows at Midnight&rdquo; as Toronto Maple Leafs played Pittsburgh Hornets Sept. 3 0.</p><p>Roughly 1,800 fans got the idea both clubs had passed away and they were watching them in heaven as a blanket of fog, three feet deep, encompassed all but the torsos of every player on the ice.</p><p>Prompted by an unseasonable heat wave, the fog wouldn&rsquo;t even budge when an 1801st fan, an electric fan, was introduced to blow it out between periods.</p><p>But it was not entirely a laughing matter. The three goalies who participated, Harry Lumley of Leafs and Don Campbell and Ed Chadwick for Pittsburgh, risked their lives by standing in nets when they couldn&rsquo;t see what was coming at them.</p><p>&ldquo;They should of each got a purple heart,&rdquo; Leaf coach King Clancy said afterward, blessing his Irish luck that no one was hurt.</p><p>&ldquo;I was never in my life so glad to hear the final whistle of a game&rdquo;, Lumley confessed afterward.</p><p>Chadwick admitted he played by ear. &ldquo;I could sometimes hear, the puck coming along the ice, but I never saw it until it was within five feet of me,&rdquo; he confessed. &ldquo;And a couple of times when high shots hit the boards behind me, I was looking the other way and almost jumped out of my uniform.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leaf Coaltenders Play By Ear In Fog

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Dave Creighton made a 10-day T-Zone test.</p><p>From the results of it a chap doesn&rsquo;t need a meerschaum pipe and Sherlock Holmes badge to conclude that Leafs made a better deal than even Leafs had believed when they dispatched Fern Flaman and cash to Boston Bruins in return for Creighton&rsquo;s contract.</p><p>The biggest disappointment on the Toronto Maple Leaf roster when training started at St. Catharines, Ont., Dave needed only 10 days to prove that he is going to be one of Leafs&rsquo; most valuable players this season.</p><p>Here are the results of the T (for Toronto) zone test.</p><p><b>1. Creighton can score goals. He led all Leafs through an exhibition schedule of seven games in seven days.</b></p><p><b>2. He can patrol his position well and helped keep the enemy scoreless every time he served.</b></p><p><b>3. He can play left wing, where he scored 20 goals as a Bruin both last year and two years ago.</b></p><p><b>4. He can play centre. His pre-Leaf career was a mixture of centre and left wing service.</b></p><p><b>5. He can play right wing as well as almost any other Leaf although he had never in his life tried the position before he arrived with Toronto.</b></p><p>It would be difficult to name another hockey player with these qualifications. But the lanky 24-year-old Creighton has compiled evidence to substantiate every claim.</p><p>When Ron Stewart suffered an early training camp thumb sprain, Creighton received his first opportunity to play right wing. Placed there in the emergency to complete the line with Ted Kennedy and Sid Smith, he performed like he had been born in the position.</p><p>He scored five goals and assisted on four others to lead the Leafs in their barnstorming trip through southern Ontario. And he compiled a perfect record by serving on the ice while Leafs scored 13 goals and had none scored against them.</p><p>&ldquo;Doggoned if he didn&rsquo;t even look better as a right winger than a left winger,&rdquo; coach King Clancy enthused. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s just about convinced me he can play anywhere.&rdquo;</p><p>Like anyone else who has ever played alongside Ted Kennedy, the old master playmaster, Creighton gave the Leaf captain credit for his unbelievably quick adaptation to right wing.</p><p>&ldquo;Teeder makes you feel at home and everything comes natural,&rdquo; Creighton said.</p><p>Playing left wing on a line with Eric Nesterenko and centre Bob Bailey earlier in camp, Creighton didn&rsquo;t look nearly as good. But that has been attributed to the extra time he requires to put his long legs in shape. He had already proved he could play that position with Boston, well enough to make Leafs bid for him.</p><p>Outside of Kennedy, it is the other right-wingers, George Armstrong, Eric Nesterenko and Ron Stewart who have showed the most promise among Leaf forwards so far. But two of the greatest discoveries at the season&rsquo;s start are two new defense combinations.</p><p>Foremost of these is the alliance of Jim Thomson and Hugh Bolton. They produced the only positive service record in practises serving for 30 goals for and only 15 against. And in the exhibitions they topped even this with a perfect 8-0 record. Offensively they compiled four goals and 15 assists in 11 practises and one goal and three assists in seven exhibitions.</p><p>It was only six days before the season&rsquo;s opener in Detroit last Thursday that the second combination was formed. But in the ensuing four games, Leo Boivin and Jim Morrison matched the Thomson-Bolton record of serving while Leafs scored eight goals and the enemy none.</p><p>Loose Leafs&hellip;Boivin missed the Toronto debut of the Leafs in a Red Feather benefit game against Pittsburgh, because of a pulled leg muscle&hellip;Citizens of Port Perry gave home-town boy Col. Wm. MacBrien, chairman of the Maple Leaf Gardens board of directors, a stimulating ovation when the Leafs played Pittsburgh there&hellip;Port Perry High School cheerleaders even led a M-a-c-B-r-i-e-n cheer&hellip;</p><h2><i>Working Together</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0194/1122014-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="297" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0281/1122007-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="297" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Creighton Survives 10-Day T-Zone Test, Starts To Look Good

<p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ust to give you an idea what kind of batting average the hockey experts have racked up in the four previous National Hockey League prediction polls, here&rsquo;s the evidence. The left-hand-column in each case shows how the voters picked the teams to finish, and the other column indicates how the teams finished at the end of that particular season.</p><h2>PICKED 1949-50</h2><p>1. Toronto</p><p>2. Detroit</p><p>3. Montreal</p><p>4. Chicago</p><p>5. Boston</p><p>6. New York</p><h2>PICKED 1950-51</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Toronto</p><p>3. Boston</p><p>4. New York</p><p>5. Chicago</p><p>6. Montreal</p><h2>PICKED 1951-52</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Toronto</p><p>3. Montreal</p><p>4. Chicago</p><p>5. New York</p><p>6. Boston</p><h2>PICKED 1952-53</h2><p>1. Montreal</p><p>2. Detroit</p><p>3. Boston</p><p>4. Toronto</p><p>5. Chicago</p><p>6. New York</p><h2>FINISHED</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Toronto</p><p>3. Montreal</p><p>4. Boston</p><p>5. New York</p><p>6. Chicago</p><h2>FINISHED</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Montreal</p><p>3. Toronto</p><p>4. New York</p><p>5. Boston</p><p>6. Chicago</p><h2>FINISHED</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Montreal</p><p>3. Toronto</p><p>4. Boston</p><p>5. New York</p><p>6. Chicago</p><h2>FINISHED</h2><p>1. Detroit</p><p>2. Montreal</p><p>3. Toronto</p><p>4. Boston</p><p>5. New York</p><p>6. Chicago<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Last Four Polls

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How the Experts Saw the Finish

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01162/1122238-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(As seen in the Toronto Star)</b></p><p>DETROIT&mdash;Hockey has its counterpart to Walter Alston, the man who went from Montreal to Brooklyn with an assignment to beat the Yankees in the world series. Wally fanned for two reasons: The Brooklyn weren&rsquo;t in the world series and neither were the Yankees. So he&rsquo;s not more than 50 per cent to blame for failure of the mission, at the very worst appraisal. Hockey&rsquo;s Alston is a little round man named Jimmy Skinner. They are not expecting Jimmy to improve on the record of his predecessor, Tommy Ivan. Jimmy, undoubtedly, would get by if he just equalled Ivan&rsquo;s performance. Tommy finished first six times and was second once in seven seasons as coach of the Detroits. They won the Stanley Cup three times during Ivan&rsquo;s tenure, and the big basin is locked in their treasure chest as Skinner takes over. You&rsquo;d wonder just what Jimmy would have to do to earn himself recognition as a big league coach. He could finish first in the 70-game derby. So what? It just means the number has been raised from six straight to seven. He could win the Stanley Cup. Ho-hum, so the league is spared cartage charges. Just leave it in the Olympia. Maybe he could steer the Red Wings through 70 games without a defeat. The people probably would nod their heads and exclaim: &ldquo;That Jack Adams is a foxy guy; he&rsquo;s got himself another coach who&rsquo;s just as good as Ivan.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02145/1122231-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="592" height="907"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><p>There are plenty of ways in which Jimmy could get himself noticed&mdash;which is somewhat different from getting recognition. He could finish third&mdash;or even seconds, as Alston did. That would give the ringside managers a chance to howl: &ldquo;Bring back Ivan.&rdquo; In short, the odds are against Jimmy&rsquo;s earning huzzahs. It&rsquo;s like the year Zack Wheat had a big season in the field for the old Dodgers. A fly paper company came out with and advertisement that read: &ldquo;Wheat caught 288 flies last year. Tanglefoot caught 15 billion.&rdquo;</p><p>THE little round man is taking the job in his stride. He had his coming-out party here Saturday night, when he directed the Detroits against the all-stars in the annual clambake of hockey celebrities. And there was no apparent change in the pace of hockey&rsquo;s winningest horses under a new driver. If anything, they might have been travelling a little faster. Their big operators, like Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly and Gordie Howe, were stick-outs as usual. And the line of John Wilson, Metro Prystai and Bill Dineen served notice that it might add depth this season to the Detroit gunnery. Marcel Bonin the bear fighter, may not win any awards for finesse, but he&rsquo;s a cinch to author some bruises on rival wingers if he sticks with the champions. Mons. Marcel isn&rsquo;t averse to inflicting bruises even on friends. He and Terry Sawchuk got into a fight while Bonin was playing for the Edmonton farm club in the exhibition tangles. Bonin confided to a pal: &ldquo;Nobody she&rsquo;s gonna keep me offa this team eef I hafta fight.&rdquo;</p><p>Skinner is seeing more films than a football coach, in order to improve his knowledge of the team he is coaching. Although he&rsquo;s been in the Detroit organization for a number of years, he&rsquo;s seen comparatively little of the varsity.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s more pressure in this league,&rdquo; Skinner shrugged. &ldquo;In junior hockey, a fellow can get a little careless now and then. If he&rsquo;s lucky, he gets away with it.&rdquo;</p><p>If it has occurred to Jimmy that his own particular role has a high potential of jeers and a poor prospect of cheers, the knowledge isn&rsquo;t bothering him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">IRWIN B. BLOND, Notary Public.</div><p>STATEMENT of the ownership, management, etc., of THE HOCKEY NEWS, a weekly and monthly paper, published in Houses Point, N.Y.</p><p>The name of the editor is Kenneth W. McKenzie; business manager, Will V. Cote, both of Montreal, Canada.</p><p>The publishing company is Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., Montreal, Que., a Limited Company.</p><p>There are Will V. Cote, 4884 Montclair Ave., N.D.G., Montreal, Que.) Ken McKenzie, 7481 Mount St., Town of Mt. Royal, Que., no bond holders, mortgages or other security holders.</p><p>That the average number of copies of each weekly and monthly issue of the publication sold and distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the twelve months proceeding the date shown is 30,000 and 9.000 copies respectively.</p><p>Sworn to by Will V. Cote on the 7th day of October 1954.</p><p>My Commission is for life.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Statement of Ownership

<div class="byline">by Dink carrall</div><p><b>(As Seen in the Montreal Gaxette)</b></p><h2>Hockey Draft a Success</h2><p>The hockey season opened last Thursday night when Frankie Eddolls, new coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, brought his team into the Forum.</p><p>The new draft and waiver rules have caused some changes in the player personnel of the teams, thongh not as many as some expected. In the latest transaction, Canadiens lost Bucky Hollingworth, a fine defense prospect, to the Black Hawks, who claimed him at the $15,000 draft price.</p><p>As far as Jack Adams, the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; general manager, is concerned, hockey&rsquo;s first draft meeting in New York last month was a success, although, only one player changed clubs. This was</p><p>Johnny (Goose) McCormack, who was also picked up by the Black Hawks from Canadiens for another $15,000.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget that the impending draft figured largely in deals that were made before the meeting,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;The Black Hawks got a couple of centres from Boston, Jack McIntyre and Red Sullivan, and another from the Toronto Leafs in Bob Hassard.</p><p>&ldquo;The threat of the draft could also have been back of the New York Rangers&rsquo; purchase of Danny Lewicki, a left wing, from the Toronto Leafs. The Rangers and the Black Hawks can&rsquo;t excuse their teams&rsquo; poor showing any longer by arguing that the other clubs have the talent all bottled up.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack&rsquo;s own players were relieved when no one attempted to pick up Tony Leswick, who wasn&rsquo;t included on Detroit&rsquo;s protected list. Leswick is very popular with his teammates. Jack told them that Leswick wouldn&rsquo;t be drafted, but they weren&rsquo;t as sure as he was.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0383/1122317-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="598" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><h2>All-Star Game Draws Well</h2><p>Incidentally, the Red Wing organization appears to have done quite a job in selling the All-Star game to Detroit patrons. They had frenzied competition for the fans&rsquo; dollars from football as well as rivalry for newspaper space from both football and baseball.</p><p>In 1950 only 9,166 saw the Red Wings register the only victory (7-1) that any team registered over the All-Stars. In 19 52, one of the two years that the ill-advised First All-Star Team versus Second All-Star Team game was played, the attendance was 10,680.</p><p>Both games were in Detroit&rsquo;s 12,000-seat Olympia and they were the smallest crowds of the seven All-Star games played, a statistic that may be misleading. The 19 48 game in Chicago Stadium drew 12,794, but another 7,000 seats were empty. Two of the three games in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens were sellouts and the other was a near sellout. There has been only one game played in the Forum and you couldn&rsquo;t have eased another person into the building with a shoehorn. That was a year ago.</p><p>Last Saturday night&rsquo;s game drew better than the other two games played in Detroit when 11,18 8 fans paid their way in. The proceeds, of course, go into the coffers of the Players&rsquo; Pension and Savings Plan, which has been a phenomenal success. There is now over $1,000,000 in the kitty, though it was only started back in 1947.</p><p>The first fellow to benefit from it will be Toe Blake, who starts to take out when he reaches 45. This recalls a remark Toe made a couple of years ago to a group of hockey writers.</p><p>&ldquo;When I was playing, you guys always had me about four years older than I am and it used to burn me up.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But you can&rsquo;t make me mad now by writing that I&rsquo;m 4 5.&rdquo;</p><p>A large share of the &ldquo;credit for the plan goes to Clarence Campbell, president of the N.H.L., which recalls another remark, this one from Newsy Lalonde.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t that I was born 30 years too soon,&rdquo; commented Newsy. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s that Clarence Campbell was born 30 years too late.&rdquo;</p><h2>Red Wings Are Favored</h2><p>The Red Wings have virtually the same team as the one that took it all last season and they will be favored to repeat, even though Jack Adams says Canadiens are the team to beat.</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have been flying in pre-season exhibition games and Conn Smythe pronounces them a much improved club over last year&rsquo;s. Coach King Clancy echoes this and adds that he expects them to finish no lower than second. Lynn Patrick seems satisfied with his Boston Bruins, but he may have trouble replacing Johnny Peirson, who has retired. He was one of their few goal-scorers. No one is predicting a championship for the Rangers or the Black Hawks, but they will be better than they were last season.</p><p>Maybe we should have asked &ldquo;Prince Uraabi,&rdquo; the higher mathematician, to pick the order of the finish for us. The Prince has been having some luck with his equation of late. He picked Marciano to lick Charles in their last fight, but who didn&rsquo;t? However, he called up about 10 days ago to tell us that, the Giants would win the World Series. Yesterday he sent the following note:</p><p>&ldquo;At no time in the history of the world has anyone ever before mastered the &lsquo;element of chance&rsquo; in mathematics. I am, consequently, the biggest story in the sports world.</p><p>&ldquo;Consider what the problem of the World Series comprised. A possible seven games, played in two different locations, continual change of players, and possible postponements of games. Yet my equation gave it clearly and without an &lsquo;if&rsquo; before a single game had been played.</p><p>&ldquo;Probably $1,000,000,000 was bet on the series with 85 per cent of it on the Indians. Practically all the columnists of America picked them, too. London, England, has made me an offer.&rdquo;</p><p>The Prince is riding the magic carpet at the moment, but he underrates himself. He is not only the biggest story in the sports world; he&rsquo;s the biggest story in the world.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-03

playing the filed

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Most stunning development with the Rangers, as Muzz Patrick inaugurates his first full season as coach, was the nomination of Lorne (Gump) Worsley to succeed Johnny Bower in the nets. Bower was spirited off to Vancouver of the Western League less than a week before the Broadway Blues opened their campaign in Detroit.</p><p>Bower had had a remarkable freshman year with the Rangers. His goals-against record of 2.60 through every minute of the 70-game schedule, was the lowest by a Ranger goalie since Davey Kerr&rsquo;s farewell season of 19 40-41; and when you consider that the Blues&rsquo; nets have been guarded by such as Jim Henry, Chuck Rayner and rookie-of-the-year Worsley himself in the Intervening years, it was a mark to be proud of.</p><p>Bower&rsquo;s size and savvy&mdash;experience gained through eight years with the Cleveland Barons of the American League&mdash;figured to give him the call over Worsley, even if one was not particularly enthralled by Johnny&rsquo;s statistics in goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01115/1122362-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="302" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muzz Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>But coach Patrick preferred to base his decision on what he saw in the training period, and nothing else. And in the exhibition games between the Rangers and their Vancouver farm, played not only in that West Coast city but also in Kamloops, Kelowna and Seattle, Worsley maintained a Clear, decisive edge.</p><p>When the Rangers broke camp to barnstorm through the West and then into the prairie cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert, they took both Bower and Worsley on the junket. But only the Gumper got to play. It was as if Patrick wanted, to give Worsley enough rope to hang himself. If that was Muzz&rsquo;s plan, it didn&rsquo;t work. Gump played spectacularly at all the stops. Finally, when a decision had to be made, Bower was advised to report to the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>Worsley&rsquo;s record, ever since he turned pro in 1950-51, has been replete with trophy-winning achievements, despite his diminutive stature. He rises only to 5&rsquo;7&rdquo;, though he has put on a few extra and helpful pounds, so that today he&rsquo;s a 160-pounder.</p><p>Playing for ex-Ranger Snuffy Smith in St. Paul of the now-defunct U.S. hockey League, Worsley was acclaimed rookie of the year in 1950-51. His goals-against average was 2.88, first time in the league&rsquo;s history that any netminder brought his record under three goals a game.</p><p>Next year the Gump moved on to Saskatoon where the Quakers won the title. He led the league in shutouts. A year later he got a hurry call to join the Rangers when Chuck Rayner&rsquo;s gimpy legs started to go. Worsley stayed until Rayner was ready for <i>a</i> comeback. Then Chuck was hurt again and Gump once more made the long flight to New York. This time he played through 35 games, finishing out the season and winning the NHL rookie award on the basis of an impressive second half.</p><p>The following fall, Frank Boucher pitched the Ranger training camp in Saskatoon and brought an extra goalie with him in Bower. It was here that Johnny won the Job and Worsley, in spite of the rookie award, was loaned out to Vancouver. Gump took the demotion in good grace.</p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Campbell,&rdquo; said the Gumper, philosophically, &ldquo;will have an awful long trip to make to give me the Calder trophy.&rdquo;</p><p>The Worsley setback caused critics of the rookie award to yammer: &ldquo;I told you so.&rdquo; They said Gordie Hannigan, Bobby Hassard and Leo Boivin, the foremost contenders, were all more deserving. &ldquo;Look,&rdquo; they chorused, &ldquo;Worsley isn&rsquo;t even good enough to make the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><p>What they overlooked, of course, was Bower&rsquo;s own highly specialized skills. Johnny proved it with his record. And while he goes now to the minors, just as Gump did the year before, there can hardly be any one to say he is not a big league goalie. The Rangers sincerely believe either one could be playing regularly for at least two other clubs in the NHL.</p><p>Worsley, of course, does not have the big league job sewed up. He must set out to prove that what he showed in the exhibition games will be the brand of goal-tending he&rsquo;ll give forth against big league competition. If not, Johnny may come marching back.</p><p>In Vancouver last year, Worsley held the opposition to a measly 2.40 goals-against average, far better than the second best goalie. He carried the Canucks into first place and he picked up two $100 bonuses for winning an all-star berth and taking down the MVP award.</p><p>With Worsley ready in the nets, the Rangers hoped to get off to a better start than has been their wont in recent years. They&rsquo;ll carry five defensemen in Jack Evans, Harry Howell, Ivan Irwin, Allan Stanley and Bob Chrystal. If another is needed, Aldo Guidolin can fall back.</p><p>About Stanley the Rangers have no qualms. Some irresponsible stories have spread about Allan&rsquo;s rumored transfer to Chicago, but at no time has there ever been any basis for it. Most New York hockey fans are glad to see Stanley return to the big city, and they&rsquo;ll probably sound off in a welcome salute when the big guy steps out on the Madison Square Garden ice for the home opener on October 20.</p><p>Stanley proved his class when he was committed to Vancouver early last season. At no time did Allan squawk about the Ranger organization or any ill-treatment. Doubtless, he and Worsley keyed the Canucks to a Western League title.</p><p>Patrick doesn&rsquo;t expect to rotate more than three forward lines. He has Danny Lewicki teamed up with Bones Raleigh and Nick Mickoski. He has a kid line of Vancouver&rsquo;s Larry Popein centering Andy Bathgate and Ron Murphy. And he has Paul Ronty playing with Jackie McLeod and either Glen Sonmor or Dean Prentice.</p><p>That leaves Edgar Laprade and Guidolin to kill penalties and rookie-of-the-year Camille Henry for spot assignments. Meanwhile, the Rangers hope high scoring Wally Hergesheimer can start skating by mid-November.</p><h2>His Record Didn&rsquo;t Count!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0458/1122355-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1166" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY BOWER&hellip;&hellip;Westward Ho I</b></figcaption></div><h2>Return Of The Calder Kid!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0539/1122348-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="1154" height="1190"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY&hellip;Back To New York</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-01

Mura’s Switch To Gump Stuns New York

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0298/1122393-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Montreal, Que., May 14, 1929.</b></p><p><b>Goaltender. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;7&rdquo;, 155 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: New York Rovers (Seniors).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-02

Gump’s Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0376/1122424-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Prince Albert, Sank., November 8, 1928.</b></p><p><b>Goaltender. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;9&rdquo;, 170 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Prince Albert Black Hawks (Juniors).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-03

Bower’s Record

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Average age of the Rangers is 24.8 years and average weight of the team is 171 pounds. The forwards, never too big, are fairly good-sized in composite at 166&hellip;. Camille Henry put on three big pounds&mdash;lifting weights&hellip;Jackie McLeod must be pretty fair as a ball player. Recently received a letter from a Milwaukee scout&hellip;Glen Sonmor&rsquo;s fistic exploits so impressive some of the lads call him &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo;&hellip;Worst air traveler on the Rangers is Gump Worsley. Gets nervous at the slightest bump.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0624/1122469-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="304" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Ronty</b></figcaption></div><p>Frank Boucher went on a network TV hockey show following the Friday night fights over NBC on October 8, night before the Rangers opened their season in Detroit&hellip;Show is called &ldquo;Greatest Moments in Sport&rdquo;&hellip;Ranger players got a laugh when they learned that Bones Raleigh and Paul Ronty were used as a penalty-killing team in the All-Star game. Neither exactly specializes in this department on the Blues&hellip;Rangers played a pre-season exhibition game in Port Arthur, Ont., at the request of Edgar Laprade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0711/1122462-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="300" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bones Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>Nick Mickoski adapting himself easily to the wrong-side right wing position&hellip;All the Rangers hoping Jackie McLeod does a bang-up job filling in for the convalescing Wally Hergesheimer on Ronty&rsquo;s right wing&hellip;Aldo Guidolin never played defense for the Rangers, but he&rsquo;s getting some tryouts there now&hellip;Muzz Patrick says it took him a full training period to appreciate Camille Henry&rsquo;s deftness as a scorer. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s better than he was last year,&rdquo; Muzz insists.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-087/1122455-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="310" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Nick Mickoski</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-06

“Lightweight” NY Rangers Average 171-lbs Per Man

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rattes: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879 Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation</b></p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01188/1122545-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="408" height="422"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>IM NORRIS</b> flew to Montreal from New York to catch the Chicago Black Hawks opener against Canadiens&hellip;The Chicago owner is determined to ice a contending club in Chicago&hellip;&ldquo;It may take a little time but we&rsquo;ll have a good team yet,&rdquo; Norris told us prior to the start of the game&hellip;He is very optimistic on the job he thinks Ivan and Eddolls can do for him&hellip;Maurice Richard started the 1954-55 season with one of his greatest bursts of speed ever. The incomparable Rocket might be in for his best season since joining Canadiens&hellip;Jean Beliveau started the season 10 pounds lighter than he did a year ago. He weighs 206 right now&hellip;Molson&rsquo;s Brewery premiered &ldquo;Le Plus Beau Jeu du Monde&rdquo;, a film showing the highlight scenes of the 1954 Stanley Cup playoffs, last week to close to 700 people at the Windsor Hotel&hellip;The picture opens with some old-time hockey scenes. One shows a picture of Canadiens practicing at an open air rink in 1925, another shows the first hockey game played in Madison Square Garden in 1927&hellip;These valuable films were preserved by Leo Dandurand, former owner of Les Canadiens&hellip;Tommy Ivan did his best to try and lure Leo Reise out of retirement. Ivan figures there is still plenty of good hockey left in Leo and thinks he would help the Hawks defense&hellip;Jack Adams predicts Toronto will finish one-two&hellip;Joe Nichols, veteran hockey writer of the New York Times, calls them to finish in this order: Montreal, Toronto, Detroit. New York, Boston, Chicago&hellip;Joe is one of the best prognosticators in the circuit and it might be wise to remember his picks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0284/1122538-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="294" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rocket Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>IT&rsquo;S THE BATTLE</b> of the fathers among the Detroit Red Wings these days&hellip;Such recent fathers as Ted Lindsay, Tony Leswick, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk and Bob Goldham are constantly pulling out the latest snapshots of their beloved offspring&hellip;The Montreal Forum has a light blue marking along the lower part of the boards Immediately up from ice level similar to the orange markings used in Detroit&hellip;One member of the Toronto Maple Leafs who signed his contract after a bit of a hassle with assistant general manager Hap Day, called up the following day to say he wasn&rsquo;t satisfied&hellip;&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t sleep all night, because I was worrying over that contract,&rdquo; he reported&hellip;At Conn Smythe&rsquo;s suggestion, an adjustment was made in the stipend. &ldquo;Now, if you&rsquo;ll play the kind of hockey we know you can play, maybe we&rsquo;ll be able to sleep, too,&rdquo; Smythe said drily&hellip;Elwyn (Moe) Morris, ex-defenseman with Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers, has succeeded Howie Meeker as coach of the Stratford Seniors&hellip;The International Hockey League may turn out and out professional before long&hellip;The loop is anxious to have sponsored junior teams like the other pro circuits&hellip;Montreal Canadiens have new pants for their players this year. They are of a lighter blue shade than in former years and appear more attractive&hellip;Jackie Leclair, rookie Montreal center, made a fine impression in his first game under the Big Top&hellip;Some people can&rsquo;t figure out why he wasn&rsquo;t picked up at the draft meeting for $15,000, as he wasn&rsquo;t on Canadiens protected list&hellip;First annual AHL All-Star Game will be played at Hershey oh Wednesday, October 27&hellip;Baz O Meara, sports editor of the Montreal Star, has just completed 25 years with that paper. He was either assistant sports editor or sports editor for all of those 25 years&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s new Production Line of Howe, Lindsay and Delvecchio scored 70 goals among them last year&hellip;Howe scored 33, Lindsay 26 and Delvecchio 11.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0348/1122531-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="302" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>FOUR OF THE FIVE</b> coaches in the AHL (Springfield hasn&rsquo;t announced theirs as yet) will be of the playing variety this season&hellip;Bun Cook of Cleveland is the only non-playing coach in the loop&hellip;The playing mentors are Howie Meeker at Pittsburgh, Pat Egan at Providence, Murray Henderson at Hershey, and Gaye Stewart at Buffalo&hellip;Meeker and Stewart are both freshman coaches in the AHL&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs should be able to hit high C this year&hellip;There are three new faces on the Leafs this semester and all three have a surname starting with the letter C&hellip;They are Larry Cahan, Brian Cullen and Dave Creighton&hellip;Bucky Hollingworth made a fine Impression on defense for Chicago in the Hawks first game&hellip;Apparently Eddolls has lots of confidence in him for he left him on the ice a lot&hellip;He took Gus Mortson&rsquo;s place, when Gus was unable to play due to severe stomach pains&hellip;Pete Bessone, former AHL player, has been signing Canadian players to play in Italy this winter&hellip;The Italian loop has six teams and each team is allowed six imports of, which three must be juniors&hellip;Bessone says the Italians like hockey second only to spaghetti and meat balls.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0433/1122524-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="296" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Brian Cullen</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0529/1122576-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>How About Old-timers?</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>When I receive each issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, I read it thoroughly from front page to back, not missing one feature of this great newspaper. But I have been wondering about something for a long time.</p><p>In each issue a story is written about some player. But never are there any articles on the men who have retired from this fine game. Surely, they are not to be forgotten?</p><p>I know a lot of people like myself who never saw some of the old-timers and pioneers in the NHL play. I would like to suggest that THE HOCKEY NEWS write two feature stories in each Issue. One could concern presentday players, the other the men who played this game in times gone by.</p><p>I would like to get an opinion from other fans of this paper on whether they think this is a good idea or not. Let&rsquo;s not let the oldtimers be forgotten. Let their feats live on through stories in THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>Gerald Bartush Birmingham, Mich.</p><p><b>(This suggestion certainly has merit. It also has drawbacks. So much is currently going on in all the leagues that it is difficult at times to find sufficient space to cover each circuit adequately. If we were to devote space to features on old-timers, it would be necessary to cut down on the present-day activities of one of the leagues, and our mail certainly indicates that this would be a step not in keeping with the demands of most of our readers. However further correspondence is encouraged. As always, the reader will have the last say. If other fans feel as does Mr. Bartush, let&rsquo;s hear from them.)</b></p><p>One Against The Multitude Dear Sirs:</p><p>I read in the Fan Forum the article about the selection of the All Stars and how Andy O&rsquo;Brien (Columnist for The Montreal Daily Star) did not like the choice of the coach.</p><p>All I can say is that it&rsquo;s one man against hundreds of Clancy fans.</p><p>Have been enjoying your paper now for three years.</p><p>Gary Mitchell Toronto, Ont.</p><h2>The Tenth Province</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>Here in Canada&rsquo;s tenth province we read THE HOCKEY NEWS like fans everywhere else in Canada. We read about players from British Columbia to Nova Scotia,&rsquo; but never from Newfoundland.</p><p>We hope it will be a different story in the future, as Newfoundland is gradually developing young hockey players with ability that may someday enable them to play in the NHL. It&rsquo;s a big hope, but it may soon be a reality.</p><p>Our first break came this year when George Faulkner, a big centre who played standout hockey for the Quebec Frontenac&rsquo;s last year, was invited to attend Montreal Canadiens training camp. Everyone is eagerly awaiting the outcome, with the hope that George will get a place on the Montreal Royals. He is young, 21, and has the potential to become a great player.</p><p>Quebec fans will remember another Newfoundlander, Copper Leyte, who played bone-crushing hockey for the Quebec Citadels and later the Aces. Last year Copper played for Glace Bay, NS. and was highly rated in that league.</p><p>There are others, like young Gordie Butler, who is trying out for Frontenacs, who will someday break into junior hockey in Canada. This is our first step, but a big one, that may someday enable us to cheer for our own players in the NHL.</p><p>Best of luck to a great paper.</p><p>Fred Sanger Grand Falls, Nfld.</p><h2>Gratifying Results</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In the middle of the 1953-54 hockey season I submitted a letter to the Fan Forum which you were kind enough to print. The letter expressed the wish to organize a pen pal club for the purpose of exchanging information, photos, etc., on the AHL.</p><p>The results of the letter were very gratifying, as I received over 30 replies from fans all over the United States and Canada.</p><p>At this time I would like to invite more fans to join our club and as I promised in my first letter, every reply I receive will be promptly answered. I would especially like to hear from AHL fans, but letters from all hockey enthusiasts will be welcomed.</p><p>As soon as possible I will send a list of hockey pen pals to everyone who joins our club so they may choose who they would like to write to.</p><p>Letters can he sent to the following address: 59 Wex avenue, Buffalo 11, N.Y.</p><p>Thank you for your assistance in helping us form this club.</p><p>Norma Roberts, Buffalo, N.Y.</p><h2>Tribute to McNeil</h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>This is the first time I have written to your fine paper, which I have been getting for some time now.</p><p>I&rsquo;d like to address this letter to Gerry McNeil, the greatest and gamest little goaltender in the NHL. If it hadn&rsquo;t been for his sensational play last March the Habs wouldn&rsquo;t have come as close as they did.</p><p>I read about his possible retirement and although he&rsquo;s probably got good reasons, he is way better than Jacques Plante in my book, and I know I am not alone in saying it would be a pity to see the great little guy go.</p><p>If anyone is interested in selling second-hand goalie pads, please write to me giving price and details at 6045 Gouin Blvd., Saraguay, Montreal, P. Q.</p><p>Crick Cape Montreal, P.Q.</p><p><b>(As featured in last week&rsquo;s issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, Gerry McNeil has now retired. We agree that he will be missed.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0626/1122607-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="600" height="276"></div><p>October 17 - October 25</p><p>18&mdash;Gordon, Fraser, Cleveland, centre, 1929.</p><p>20&mdash;Anderson, Andy, centre, Victoria, 1927.</p><p>22&mdash;Currie, Roy, Vancouver, defense, 1925.</p><p>23&mdash;Shero, Al, Cleveland, defense, 1925.</p><p>23&mdash;Wilson, Larry, Edmonton, centre, 1930.</p><p>23&mdash;Henry, Sugar Jim, Boston, goalie, 1920.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-078/1122638-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>a</span>nd every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS&mdash;&ldquo;Official Organ of All Hockey&rdquo;. The Hockey News carries stories on all the teams and the star players written by the foremost hockey writers in Canada and the United Stales. Besides outstanding features and stories The Hockey News runs more action pictures and cartoons than any other publication. Interesting Crossword puzzles also appear in each issue.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS is published for 35 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 35 issues.</p><p>A years subscription is for 35 consecutive Issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00</b> Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order,</p><p><b>U.S.A Remittances&mdash;$4.00</b> Payable by postel Note Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.</p><p><b>Fill In Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YES, HOCKEY FANS, THE 1954-55 SEASON IS HERE AT LAST

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin&rsquo;s preoccupation with figures is so intense that an observer, not versed in hockey lore, might mistake him for an accountant.</p><p>Rather, the coach of the Canadiens is a shrewd analyst. He&rsquo;s the Branch Rickey of hockey.</p><p>After delving into some fascinating statistics last week Irvin announced that he expects his big three of Maurice Richard, Bernie Geoffrion and Jean Beliveau to produce 100 goals or more this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01138/1122683-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="294" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rocket Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;If they do, we&rsquo;re in,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;because we have enough other fellows on the team to account for the other 100 we&rsquo;ll need to win the National Hockey League championship.&rdquo;</p><p>How many did Irvin&rsquo;s big three score last year Seventy-nine. Richard led the league&rsquo;s marksmen with 37, Geoffrion was third highest scorer in the loop with 2 9 and Beliveau scored 13.</p><p>Richard, of course, was the only member of. the trio to play the full slate of 70 games. Geoffrion missed 16 games, owing to Injuries and a suspension for whacking Ron Murphy of the Rangers over the head in a brawl in New York.</p><p>Beliveau, in his rookie year, missed 2 6 games with a cracked ankle bone and then a shattered jaw. Together the trio played 168 games out of a potential of 210.</p><p>&ldquo;So,&rdquo; said Irvin, fingering a sheaf of figures, &ldquo;if Richard, Geoffrion and Beliveau can score 79 goals in 168 games, why can&rsquo;t they hit 100 in 210?&rdquo;</p><p>It figures.</p><p>Richard, who throughout his career has erupted with enough scoring power to shatter almost every record for individual performances, got off to a flying score with a brace of tallies in the Habs&rsquo; NHL opener against the revamped Chicago Black Hawks in Montreal. And in addition he picked up two assists in the Canadiens&rsquo; 4-2 Victory.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02115/1122676-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="291" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>The Rocket&rsquo;s goals brought his lifetime total to 386, just 14 short of the magic 400. Until he came into the league with his blazing speed, his strong strides and uncanny ability to hit the target from any range, that was considered an unattainable figure. Now it is well within his grasp.</p><p>Geoffrion with his booming shots has been a scorer since his rookie year. In his first full season he banged 30 pucks behind harassed netminders and in his second turn with the Habs he scored 22.</p><p>Last year, had he played the full season, he might have finished with 35 or more goals, surpassing even Gordie Howe&rsquo;s total of 3 3.</p><p>Beliveau, always a famed scorer as an amateur, is expected to reach his full potential this season. It is not unreasonable to assume that he will be well over 20.</p><p>Geoffrion and Beliveau, of course, are linemates and they complement each other. With Dickie Moore, a scrappy and versatile player, on left wing they present a formidable and youthful combination. They might become hockey&rsquo;s next great line, ranking in history with the Canadiens&rsquo; Punch Line and Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0385/1122669-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="300" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><p>Richard needs a good centre, an expert playmaker, a man who can send him in with the puck on his stick when opportunity beckons at the net.</p><p>Leclair seems to fill the bill. In his NHL debut against the Hawks, he scored one goal and drew two assists and acquitted himself with distinction.</p><p>&ldquo;A 100 goals from the Rocket, Geoffrion and Beliveau.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s what Irvin said.</p><p>Right now it would be safe to predict, that barring injuries and if Geoffrion behaves himself and stays on the ice, Irvin&rsquo;s hopes will be realized.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Dick Irvin’s Master Plan Calls For 100 Goals Off Sticks Of Richard, Beliveau And Boomer

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>(Toronto Globe & Mall)</p><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Detroit Red Wings will win another NHL pennant this season but they will be eliminated in the Stanley Cup playoffs. And the impetuous, muscular Toronto Maple Leafs Will probably finish in fourth place.</p><p>These unsolicited opinions were offered by Conn Smythe during a farewell seance for the edification of press and radio in his privite chambers in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>&ldquo;This is my last press conference as a manager,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;As of today Hap Day is in full charge of the team. My connection with the club is severed in power and fact. In name it will be severed February 1.</p><p>Leafs, who open their home schedule in the Gardens tonight with Chicago Black Hawks, failed to elicit any laudatory comment from the retiring Smythe.</p><p>&ldquo;The Toronto club defensively isn&rsquo;t good and hasn&rsquo;t been good,&rdquo; he said flatly. &ldquo;It has to stiffen up and straighten out. Our club is strong on muscle, but Einsteins are hard to find. But I would caution Day and Clancy to use that heart and muscle rather than reach for the impossible by trying to create Einsteins.&rdquo;</p><p>But, despite that severe analysis, Smythe said Leafs should finish in fourth place, ahead of Chicago and New York because, he said, Leafs have better bench strength.</p><p>&ldquo;The reason I don&rsquo;t rate the club higher, is that we put six new men in two years ago,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;They were Stewart, Hannigan, Armstrong, Boivin, Horton and Morrison. Just as in university they should be getting ready to graduate. But some of those birds had better get going or they&rsquo;re going to flunk as far as we&rsquo;re concerned.&rdquo;</p><p>Brian Cullen, Leafs&rsquo; highlypublicized rookie, was singled out for special praise by Smythe. Cullen, incidentally, will play at centre tonight between Tod Sloan and Harry Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;Cullen is the start of our players, who use brains with muscles,&rdquo; analyzed Smythe. &ldquo;We have to make room on our team to get cullen in somewhere. I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s the kind of a kid who will go down to the minors. Maybe I&rsquo;m wrong&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;</p><p>George Armstrong, who normally plays on a line with Sloan and Watson, may be employed elsewhere in tonight&rsquo;s game. Sloan, a centreman, will be switched to wing.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe Sloan will become a 20-goal man again if we move him back to the wing,&rdquo; declared Smythe. &ldquo;Armstrong will have to fight his way back. It&rsquo;s strictly up to the players themselves.&rdquo;</p><p>Detroit can&rsquo;t miss clinching first place again in Smythe&rsquo;s opinion. &ldquo;They win more away from home than any other team,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;ll win the Stanley Cup. They were life and death to do it last year and they haven&rsquo;t improved.&rdquo;</p><p>Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins should follow Detroit, Smythe intoned as he peered into the future.</p><p>&ldquo;If Canadiens and Boston can win away from home they could go up,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;I have to give the edge to Canadiens though, because in iDck Irvin and his wet-towel hockey they can blanket anybody.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe announced that he was stepping down from Leafs at a time when the club appeared at a time when the club appeared to be in a particularly strong position.</p><p>&ldquo;I pledge my full support to Hay Dal,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like retiring from corporation that is in good shape. Our assets are good. In Larry Cahan, Marc Rheaume and Jack Caffery we have three great prospects to go along with our other young players.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe said the tension which exists in modern hockey was partially responsible for his decision to retire.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about time I got out anyway,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re under a constant nervous strain in this hockey business. It&rsquo;s too much for me. Lester (Patrick) had to get out. Ross (Art) did too. Adams (Jack) can&rsquo;t stand the strain of watching a game anymore.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Short Sports:</b> Smythe disclosed that the NHL has been asked to place Max Bentley on the suspended list because he refused to report to Leafs&hellip;Bentley offered to buy his release from Leafs but Smythe hinted the amount for such a favor might be rather staggering&hellip;. Smythe, who is on the NHL board of governors, said that action might be initiated to force clubs to trade players not being used to other clubs that could gainfully employ them&hellip;If Leafs have any expendable players they will be offered to Chicago first, Smythe revealed. He said it would contribute to the welfare of the league in general if Chicago was strengthened&hellip;Television evidently isn&rsquo;t hurting hockey as an attraction at Maple Leaf Gardens. &ldquo;This year there has been the biggest, strongest, most insistent demand for tickets there has even been,&rdquo; disclosed Smythe&hellip;Defense man Leo Boivin, out with an injured leg for the past week, may be judged fit to play with Leafs tonight. Leafs plan to dress only 15 or 16 players per game.</p><h2>Major And Successor</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0477/1122721-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="585" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CONNIE SMYTHE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0557/1122714-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="594" height="878"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAP DAY</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the Toronto Argonaut Football Club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Smythe To Be Replaced By Bap Day As Leaf GM Effective On February 1

<p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>xperience hockey coach is now available for work this season. Interested parties should write to The Hockey News, Dept. KM/NT, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Canada.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

COACH AVALABLE!

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>&mdash;CHICAGO, Ill.</p><p>The deadline almost passed, but the Black Hawks were able to acquire the services of two sorely needed defensemen on the virtual eve of the season&rsquo;s start early last week. Club officials promised last spring that every effort would be made to strengthen the rearguard corps before the 1954-55 campaign.</p><p>Chicago&rsquo;s new blue line skaters, both 21, are Gordon &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Hollingworth, purchased from the Canadiens for $15,000, and Frank Martin, secured from Boston in a straight trade which sent right winger Murray Costello, 21, to the Bruins. The new Hawks reported for the league opener at Montreal October 7.</p><p>While the need for some new blood among the defending contingent became quite apparent last year, it turned into a downright necessity September 30 when the usually brick-like Lee Fogolin Buffered a dislocated and broken right elbow in a collision with two other Hawks in practice.</p><p>Moving into his fifth year with Chicago, the burly back liner was immediately sent to Detroit for surgery which last Tuesday put the joint back together with the aid of a steel pin. Despite the haste of the operation, Fogolin will be lost to the squad for an indefinite period&mdash;perhaps as long as three months.</p><p>Martin is expected to fit in with the Hawks with little trouble since he looked very good in notching three goals and 17 assists in his first full term with Boston last year. A 190-pounder who stands six feet, one inch in height, he turned pro with the Bruins AHL affiliate at Hershey the season before.</p><p>Hollingworth is of untested quantity insofar as big league competition is concerned, but it is known that he was being considered strongly for the Canadiens prior to his purchase by Chicago. It was a deal Montreal moguls hoped they could elude, however, Hawk leaders were right on the job.</p><p>Canadien confidence in this promising grad from the Montreal prompted the application of his name when protected lists were Royals of the Quebec League called for by NHL President Clarence Campbell last month in connection with the player draft for the current schedule.</p><p>When his found there just wouldn&rsquo;t be room for the aggressive youngster at the start of the season. Coach Dick Irvin had no choice and was forced to gamble for the chance that other league members would be willing to waive on &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; so that he could be returned to the Royals.</p><p>Chicago was ripe in the market for a sturdy rearguard, however, and Hollingworth was promptly secured for the required cash payment of $15,000. Only five feet, 10 inches in height, he weighs, nevertheless, a solid 175, pounds and will be given a good chance to become a Black Hawk regular.</p><p>Martin, according to the plan, of coach Frankie Eddolls, is slated to be teamed with All-Star Bill Gadsby which would be a break for any young rearguard hoping to learn all possible about his position. Hollingworth will probably fight it out with several others for the spot beside Gue Mortson.</p><p>In announcing the acquisition of Hollingworth and Martin, Vice-President Bill Tobin of the Black Hawks admitted their addition should be a big help, but stated that the club is still very desirous of getting additional power along the forward lines.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Bolster Blueline In Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01171/1122800-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>All Round Guy&hellip;&hellip;Gerry Toppazzini</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>erard Toppazzini of the Chicago Black Hawks probably won&rsquo;t rate a look-in on any of the National League&rsquo;s individual awards this season, but he qualifies for a distinction.</p><p>No one can come close to touching him as the league&rsquo;s MVP, the initials standing for most versatile player.</p><p>The 21-year old native of Copper Cliff, Ontario, can get around more than any other player in the league, and the records prove it.</p><p>Toppazzini, three years out of junior hockey, started with Boston as a defenseman.</p><p>Since then, among the positions, both defenses. He has also played right wing, center and left wing and handled such extra-curricula chores as killing penalties and playing a point on power plays.</p><p>The only position at which he hasn&rsquo;t taken a crack in his first year of major league hockey was goal-tender.</p><p>Toppazzini has become so used to playing wherever he is needed that he doesn&rsquo;t even bother to ask in advance of a game where he&rsquo;ll be working. He has played as many as three different positions in a single game.</p><p>One night he was even called upon to substitute for a substitute, and on short notice at that.</p><p>It happened before a game with the Montreal Canadiens, in which 19-year old Frank Martin was supposed to play right defense besides Hal Laycoe. Martin had been summoned from Hershey a few days earlier to replace Bob Armstrong, who has a shoulder Injury.</p><p>But Martin came up with a charley-horse which a last-minute diagnosis disclosed to be too severe for playing, so Patrick gave the assignment, to Toppazzini. Jerry&rsquo;s previous experience at that post was largely observational, but after a hasty consultation with Laycoe, he took the ice.</p><p>The effervescent young man worked regularly with Laycoe for three periods against the Canadiens. He was sensational.</p><p>Because of the 180-pound hustler&rsquo;s versatility, Patrick was able to employ a unique method of keeping his players on their toes this season. He simply watches to see who isn&rsquo;t going well on any given night. Then he wasn&rsquo;t replaced him with Toppazzini.</p><p>The Bruins have had some talented Jacks-of-all-trades over the years, although none were as young as the Topper.</p><p>Just what Toppazzini&rsquo;s ultimate destination with Chicago will be is hard to determinte.</p><h2>He Plays Where He&rsquo;s Needed<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Topper Comes to Hawks with MVP Picked as Mighty Versatile Player

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02121/1122831-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY TIMGREN&hellip;&hellip;Should Help Hawks</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>After Vice-President Bill Tobin had announced only a few hours earlier that the Black Hawks were on the lookout for additional talent up front on the attack to go along with newcomers Trank Martin and Gordon Hollingworth on defense, it was disclosed that Ray Timgren had been secured from Pittsburgh of the AHL.</p><p>A 26-year old left winger, Timgren spent all or parts of five campaigns in the National Hockey League with Toronto before skating through the entire campaign last year with the Hornets who are Toronto&rsquo;s No. 1 minor league affiliate. He accounted for 22 goals and 30 assists during 195354.</p><p>As a left side flanker, he will have to battle for a regular turn with the Hawks with such as Pete Conacher, Jack McIntyre and Jerry Toppazzini. Two untried youngsters have also been tested on this side: Wally Blaisdell, a junior last year, and rugged Bill Shvetz, up from Calgary of the Western League.</p><p>Population on the right wing is not as solid and Ray or one or two of the others could conceivably be switched. The trio currently on top on this side are Lou Jankowski, Bob Hassard and Ike Hildebrand. The latter&rsquo;s leg fracture suffered last season has now reportedly healed completely.</p><p>The Chicago squad is strongly fortified at center with five men battling for the regular assignments. Probably slated to at least start the season are Larry Wilson, George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan and Johnny McCormack. Other contenders are Fred &ldquo;The Chief&rdquo; Sasakamoose and Kenny Wharram.</p><h2>He Went For Price<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Timgren Price For Price As Hawks Strive To Be Right On Left Side

<h2>No Programme?</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen the Chicago Black Hawks skated out against the Montreal Canadiens in the league opener, you couldn&rsquo;t tell the team without a programme. Only five players from last year&rsquo;s team were on the ice.</p><h2>First Shutout</h2><p>Terry Sawchuk, who lost the Vezina Trophy to Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley last year in the last game of the year, became the first NHL goalie to record a shutout this year when the Wings blanked the Rangers, 4-0.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDING MON. A.M. OCT. 11. 1054)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01156/1122953-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="598" height="193"></div><h3>THURSDAY. OCT. 7 Toronto 1 at Detroit 8</h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley: defense: Thomson, Bolton, Morrison, Horton, Caban. forwards: Kennedy, Smith, Creighton, Watson, Armstrong, Stewart, Migay, Bloan. Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Cullen.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Allen; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Howe, Prystal, Wilson, Dineen, Poile, Bonin, Reibel.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari. Linesmen: Bill Morrison, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02136/1122946-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="602" height="410"></div><p><b>Chicago 2 at Montreal 4</b></p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal; Rollins, defense: Gadsby, Hullingworth, Wewsbury, Martin; forwards: McCormack, Timgren, Toppazsini, Wilson, Sullivan, Conacher, Jankowski, McIntyre, Hassard, Hildebrand, Shvetz.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Mosdell, Litzenberger, Meger, Masnick, uCrry, Mackay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03105/1122939-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="603" height="673"></div><h3>Saturday, Oct. 9 BOSTON 1 AT CANADIENS 4</h3><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal Henry; defense: Quackenbush. Fiaman. Armstrong, Laycoe; forwards: Gardner, Sanford, Ferguson, Mackell, Chevrerils, Schmidt, Labine, McKenny, Bodnar. Mohns, Costello, Klukay.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Litzenberger, MacKay, Masnick, Curry, Meger.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Doug Davies, Bill Roberson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0491/1122932-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="599" height="568"></div><h3>CHICAGA 3 AT TORONTO 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0574/1122925-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="545" height="793"></div><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal; Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Hollingworth, Dewsbury, Martin; forwards: McCormack, Toppazzini, Timgren, Wilson, Sullivan, Conacher, Hassard, Jankowski, McIntyre, Hildebrand, Gamble.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson. Bolton, Morrison, Boivin, Oahan; forwards: Kennedy, Creighton, Smith, Cullen. Sloan, Watson. Bailey, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Migay, Stewart, Armstrong.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesman: Jim Primeau, Red Dunn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0666/1122918-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="592" height="751"></div><h3>NEW YORK 0 AT DETROIT 4</h3><p><b>New York:</b> Goa1 Worsley; defense: Howell, Evans, Chrystal, Stanley; forwards: Popien, Bathgate, Murphy, Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Mickoski, Guldolin, Connor, Prentice, McLoud, Henry, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goals Sawchuk: defense: Kelly, Woit, Goldham, Pronovost, Allen; forwards: Prystal, Wilson, Dineen, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Howe. Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Bonin, Poile. Reibel.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Doug Young, Ian Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0758/1122911-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="592" height="488"></div><h3>SUNDAY. OCT. 10 New York B at Chicago 1</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsely; defense Howell, Evans, Chrystal, Stanley; forwards: Mickoski, Raleigh, Lewicki, Ronty, Lapadre, Guidolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Sonmor, Prentice, McLeod, Popein, Henry.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Hollingsworth, Dewsbury, Martin; forwards: Topazzini, McCormack, Timgren, Sullivan, Conacher, Jankowski, McIntyre, Hassard, Hildebrand, Gamble.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen: George Hayes, Scotty Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0853/1122904-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="592" height="508"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>Individual scoring records are:</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0953/1122897-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="599" height="2958"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1048/1122890-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="590" height="176"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINI TES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1137/1122883-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="596" height="150"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 10th, 1954.</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-148/1122876-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="584" height="148"></div><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 17th, 1954.</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-156/1122869-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="537" height="196"></div><h2>No Time To Retire</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1313/1122862-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="1129" height="1799"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED KENNEDY His Goals Were Timely.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Maurice (Rocket) Richard, hockey&rsquo;s all-time high scorer won the distinction of being named the first Player-Of-The-Week during the 1953-54 season as a result of his smashing performance in the home opener in Montreal.</p><p>The Rocket fired two goals and set up two more as Canadiens overpowered the Chicago Black Hawks to the tune of 4-2. Those two goals brought his life-time total to 386, just 14 shy of the 400 mark, an achievement yet to be accomplished.</p><p>However, barring serious injury the Rocket is almost certain to become the first player in the history of the game to reach the 400 mark this year. He&rsquo;s hasn&rsquo;t dipped below the 20 goals per season mark in the past 10 years and he hasn&rsquo;t shown any sign of slowing up this year.</p><p>In the next game against Boston, the Rocket was credited with an assist to lift his two-game total to five points&mdash;two goals and three assists to take over the early lead in the individual scoring race.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1215/1122984-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="287" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>The Rocket is playing with a new centre man this year since Elmer Lach decided to hang &lsquo;em up this year. Jackie Leclair, a rookie from Pittsburgh has been given the job of centring Richard and Olmstead.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01171/1123015-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN McKENZIE</b>, (left) co-publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS is being congratulated by Stan Fischler, vice-president of the Rangers Fan Club, on becoming the first honorary member of that hockey booster organization. The award is given to those who make &ldquo;outstanding contributions to the game of ice hockey.&rdquo;</figcaption></div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Out of a job two days ago, Sid Janik may blaze new trail among th Czech immigrants.</p><p>The 19-year-old youth is virtually assured of a hockey job, with an assits from the local unemployement insurance commission office.</p><p>Janik arrived in Ottawa a few days ago looking for a job.</p><p>Apparently, the commission had nothing for him but they notd his qualifications andsent him around to the Ottawa Auditorium.</p><p>There, they took one look at the strapping 170-pound, six-footer, asked a couple of questions and gave him a pair of skates.</p><p>&ldquo;He looks like a very good prospect,&rdquo; said Butch Stahan, coach of the Eastview St. Charles in the city junior a hockey league.</p><p>It seems Janik played defence with the Czechoslovokian national hockey team at the 19 52 world championships in Stockholm. But he quit the team after the tournament and did not return home.</p><p>After a couple of months in Sweden, Janik went to Germany then came to Canada as an immigrant. He settled in Alberta as a farm hant but a few days ago he quit and came east.</p><p>&ldquo;I liked the way he handled himself on the ice,&rdquo; said Stahan, veteran rearguard still with Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Hockey league.</p><p>&ldquo;The kid hasn&rsquo;t his ckating legs because he has been out of hockey more than a year, but we&rsquo;ll bring him along slowly. I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ll sign him.&rdquo;</p><p>Janik said in an Interview he still has relatives in Czechoslovakia, including a brother who left the country but returned because of his family and was put in jail. Janik said his mother is somewhere in Switzerland.</p><p>Janik said Canadian hockey is rougher than the brand played in his country, but he thinks he will not be bothered by the difference.</p><p>&ldquo;I like to play the game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But there is something else. I need a job.&rdquo;</p><p>Stahan said club officials are trying to line up a job for Janik with a constrution firm in suburban Eastview.</p><h2>Honored By Fan Club<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Czech Player Needs Work May Play Hockey

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01170/1123053-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HOWIE MEEKER</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The transfer of the American Hockey League Syracuse franchise back to Springfield, where Eddie Shore operated his Indians for many years before moving to Syracuse three years ago, is meeting with much acclaim. Springfield has always been one of the greatest hockey cities in the United States, and Shore&rsquo;s announcement of his return there began an immediate and responsive revival of American Hockey League interest.</p><p>The intense rivalry which has always existed between Springfield and Providence in hockey circles will again be welcomed by the followers of both teams.</p><p>Two of the teams, Buffalo and Pittsburgh, have new coaches since the close of last season, and Springfield is expected to name their mentor in a day or so. Shore himself has been directing the many players in his training camp in the pre-season workouts and games. Veteran leftwing, Gaye Stewart has taken over the reins in Buffalo, while Howie Meeker who starred at rightwing for the Toronto Maple Leafs for many years will coach the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>Bun Cook, who led his Cleveland Barons to the Calder Cup title last season, Murray Henderson of Hershey and Pat Egan in Providence all remain as coaches this year. Stewart, Henderson, Meeker and Egan will all be taking an active part as players too, thus four out of the five leaders who are certain, will double up in their activities. If Springfield appoints a playing coach, Cook will be the only one to direct his team strictly from the bench.</p><h2>Reardon Returns</h2><p>One of the teams, Providence, will have a new general manager, as Terry Reardon returns to the Reds after an absence of one season. Reardon formerly coached the Rhode Islanders and during his regime, they had their most exciting hockey days. Now that he is in complete charge of the front office dealings of the team, the glory days of Providence hockey should return.</p><p>All of the teams will have newcomers in the playing ranks to replace those who have retired, been transferred to other leagues or traded to different AHL clubs. They have all spent the off season in strengthening their forces in an effort to wrest the title from the defending champions, Cleveland. On the other hand, the Barons have not been idle in the improvement department either, and are again expected to ice a strong team to protect the laurels they won last Spring. In most cases the accent is on youth, as all teams have promoted outstanding players from the amateur ranks and other professional leagues to add to the remaining veterans of last season. An equal balance of experience and promising rookie talent is prevalent in all of the rosters.</p><h2>Sudden Death</h2><p>Once again the AHL will employ the crowd pleasing use of &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; overtime to eliminate most of the tied games. This popular feature with the league&rsquo;s spectators resulted in only 12 deadlocked games in 210 played last season, for the small total of only 6 % ties. This was the smallest percentage of tied games in any organized hockey league last season.</p><p>On Wednesday, October 27, the league players will take time out from the regular activities to play the first annual All-Star Game of the league. It will be contested in Hershey, Pa., and will have the champion Cleveland Barons meeting last year&rsquo;s All-Stars as selected by the circuit&rsquo;s press and radio representatives. Additional players to fill out the All-Star selections will be named later to complete a full squad, with the extra players coming from all of the five teams other than Cleveland.</p><p>The agreement on officiating with the National Hockey League which has been in effect for the past two seasons, will again have the best referees available for all AHL contests. The exchange of referees between the two leagues, which has them working in both circuits has proven to be the most efficient officiating system ever employed by the AHL. Carl Voss will again be referee-in-chief of both leagues.</p><h2>Pittsburgh Hornet</h2><h2>Terry&rsquo;s Back</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03113/1123046-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="582" height="1585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY REARDON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Barons To Meet All-Stars In First AHL Annual Classic

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Bill Folk, who has been at his home in Regina, Sask, since the R. I. Reds bought him from the Detroit Red Wings, reported Thursday to Providence.</p><p>Folk, who was training with Detroit when news came of his sale to the Reds, has been undecided the last few days whether or not to report. He told Reardon by phone that he and his family were thinking of staying at home in Regina, which is a long way from Providence.</p><p>However, yesterday in another phone conversation, Folk told Reardon he would report. The rugged defender drove down and was not on hand to play against the Boston Bruins in the exhibition tilt Wednesday.</p><p>Because he was training with Detroit, Folk Is expected to be in fine shape.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02135/1123084-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="564" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BELL FOLK</b></figcaption></div><p>Coach Pat Egan was enthused at the news Folk would report. &ldquo;He is big and tough and a fine defenseman. I can say right now that he will be my best defenseman. I know he is that good&rsquo;&rsquo;, Egan said.</p><p>With Folk coming to camp and the training reaching its final stages, Egan, Reardon and Owner Lou Pieri will decide in the next few days on what players to cut from the club, Reardon said that &ldquo;we are going to be forced to let go some good hockey players but with trades and purchases, we have come up with some fine hockey talent&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reds Welcome Folk With Open Arms

<p>BALTIMORE, Md.&mdash;</p><p>With twelve years of pro hockey experience behind him Andy Brown, former American Hockey League centre with Providence Reds and the old New Haven club, has been appointed player-manager of the new Baltimore Clippers in the reactivated Eastern Hockey League.</p><p>A native of Hamilton, Ont., the 30-year-old skater also saw action with Houston and Kansas City in the United States League and with Washington in the old Eastern.</p><p>He was with Hamilton Tigers in the Ontario Hockey Association last season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Brown Joins Clippers

<h2>Gets Around</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ay Gariepy, traded by the Boston Bruins to the Toronto Maple Leafs for goalie Long John Henderson, may wind up in Pittsburgh this year. If he does he&rsquo;ll have played for Buffalo, Houston, Boston, Louisville, Hershey and Pittsburgh!</p><h2>Better with Age</h2><p>When Eddie Slowinski of the Buffalo Bisons potted 38 goals last year, it marked his most productive season since he broke into pro ranks with New Haven back in 1947-48. Prior to that his best year was the 21 goals he scored for Rangers in 1951-52.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>(STANDINGS MON. A.M. OCT. 11, 1951)</h3><p>AMERICAN LEAGUE</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01182/1123146-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="595" height="201"></div><h2>Ray Of Hope For Providence</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02133/1123139-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1762" height="2108"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY CERESINO</b>, who joined the Providence Reds from the Cleveland Barons, had a little present for his old team-mates as the American Hockey League season opened over the weekend. He scored the goal that sank the Barons, 5-4, at Providence.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>Trois-Rivieres, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s junior Canadiens, under the guidance of ex-NHL great. Elmer Lach, put out the Trois-Rivieres Flambeaux (it means Torches) in no uncertain fashion as the Quebec Junior Hockey League season opened, dumping the Trifluvians 5-3.</p><p>Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard, Bob Courcy, Leo Konyk, Claude Laforge and Neil Burke counted for the Baby Habs, but the scoring star of the game was actually Flambeaux Chester Melski, who put all three Trois-Rivieres goals in the Hab nets.</p><p>Elmer Lach, in his first fullfledged role of a coach, had nothing but praise for young Richard. Elmer should be familiar with the characteristics of the Richard family, since he spent the best part of his varied life in hockey, setting up plays for the fabulous Rocket&mdash;hockey&rsquo;s highest scorer.</p><p>On his first night out of uniform, Elmer turned up at the Montreal Forum to watch Canadiens play&mdash;without him. He watched Jackie Leclair, his successor from Pittsburgh closely, and gingerly side-stepped any comments on how he thought LeClair would do. &ldquo;Gotta give the boy a little time,&rdquo; was Elmer&rsquo;s only remark about Leclair.</p><p>Elmer figures that the younger Richard, Henry, has all the makings of an oustanding pro but wouldn&rsquo;t go so far as to say that he&rsquo;d be another Rocket.</p><p>The Pocket Rocket as young Richard is called, is still only 18 years old and has two years of junior hockey ahead of him. He has already broken every junior record in the Quebec League and when the time comes for him to make the jump up from junior he should leave an all-time junior record behind him that&rsquo;ll take some matching.</p><p>Henry aspires to make the jump to the NHL before Maurice retires. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play one season with him before he quits,&rdquo; he says. And it isn&rsquo;t hard to detect woh his favor hockey player is&mdash;family or no family.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Baby Habs ‘Firemen’, Douse Torches

<p>LONDON, Eng.&mdash;</p><p>In an age when hockey leagues are tending more and more to tighten up their leagues, improving players and quickening the action&mdash;not to mention the inevitable cutting down On travelling costs&mdash;England&rsquo;s hockey moguls are going in the opposite direction.</p><p>The newly-formed British Ice Hockey League has just come out with the biggest puck loop in the world, a 12-team circuit that includes four English and eight Scots teams. The object? It&rsquo;s claimed that the more hockey you play the more fans you draw and the bigger the brand of variety that can be offered. Only tills season&rsquo;s box-office figures will prove or disprove this claim.</p><p>The move, in a way, is an historic one. Hockey, a game imported here from Canada (and Canadian players make up the bulk of British hockey clubs) in the mid-30&rsquo;s, can now compete on a team level with such purely English sports as soccer and cricket, whose teams are legion.</p><p>Chief drawback to hockey in the British Isles is the size of the arenas, some of which can handle on 3,000 fans. As top hockey players here are paid only twenty pounds a week (about $54), the clubs are chiefly concerned over the balance of small gates as opposed to travelling expenses, an English clubs have fallen like hay before a reaper during the past few years. On the other hand the Scottish brand of the game, rough, tough and not too polished, has taken on well, and the inclusion of eight Scots teams in the new loop may prove a godsend to the league&rsquo;s backers, one of whom is Bunny Ahearne, long a guiding light in UK hockey.</p><p>Teams in the circuit are Brighton, Nottingham, Wembley, Harringway, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Kirkcaldy, Ayr, Dundee, Perth, Dunfermline and Paisley.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

British Loop Now Biggest In World

<p>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks strengthened their ranks shortly after the National Hockey League season got underway when they paid the Montreal Canadiens the $15,000 draft price for the rights to Dick Gamble who was originally headed for the New York Rangers.</p><p>However, Gamble was dealt off for defenseman Hy Buller who decided to give up hockey this year.</p><p>As a result. Gamble reverted to Canadiens and the Hawks, sensing that he was available put in a claim for him any they weren&rsquo;t rejected.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Grab Dick Gamble From Habs

<div class="byline">By HAL SIGURDSON</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Manitoba Junior Hockey took a body blow recently, staggered, clinched, then came out fighting.</p><p>The inter-locking schedule with the Lakehead junior loop, which earlier had seemed all but a certainty, is off.</p><p>Arnold Suthern, president of the Lakehead league Informed Manitoba officials that all betare off. &ldquo;You play in your league, we&rsquo;ll play in ours,&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>The reason for the sudden change of heart apparently stems from financial disagreements among the Lakehead teams. Original plans called for an even split among the four lakehead clubs of gates involving Manitoba teams. It was under this arrangement only that the Port Arthur Bruins would participate. Hence, since the inter-locking idea was scrapped, it seems probable that the Fort William teams decided against the share-and-share-alike idea on gates. Fort William teams enjoy a larger fan following in the Lakehead, thus probably felt they would be subsidizing Port Arthur.</p><h2>Officials Chagrined</h2><p>REGARDLESS of reasons, the decision will do Manitoba Juniors little good this year at least.</p><p>There was disappointment and chagrin among Manitoba officials at the news. Twice they had approached the Lakehead to arrange an inter-locking schedule. Twice they had been turned down. Then, two weeks ago, the Lakehead came to them and wanted to know how soon team representatives could get to the Lakehead to discuss arrangements. Accordingly, Cy Orchard, Barons; Pat Lyons, Monarchs; and Ed Turner, St. Boniface; made the jaunt.</p><p>Ed Turner put it this way: &ldquo;It cost Pat, Cy and myself both time and money to make the trip. It was apparently all settled. In fact, I still have a schedule we drew up. This sudden change just means that it was a lot of waste.&rdquo;</p><p>At any rate, the league has decided to carry on as a three-team circuit.</p><h2>Fourth Term</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01189/1123249-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="590" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN McAULEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Manitoba, Lakehead Sked Scheme Falls Through

<p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>DMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Ken McAuley, whose Edmonton Oil Kings were defeated in the Memorial Cup final last spring, has signed for a fourth term as coach of the Western Junior Hockey League squad.</p><p>McAuley, 33, has led Oil Kings to the league playoff finals in all three years of his tenure.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

McAuley Back As Kings’ Pilot

<h2><i>1954-55</i></h2><h3>OCTOBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02155/1123339-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="598" height="741"></div><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03132/1123332-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="596" height="812"></div><h3>DECEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04114/1123325-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="592" height="677"></div><h3>JANUARY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0595/1123318-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="590" height="707"></div><h3>FEBRUARY</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0682/1123311-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="594" height="574"></div><h3>MARCH</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0773/1123304-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="592" height="83"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Quebec Junior League

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The curtain is about to rise on the International Hockey League&rsquo;s tenth season of competition.</p><p>Six clubs: Johnstown, Pa.; Troy, O.; Ft. Wayne, Ind,; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Toledo, O. and Cincinnati, O.&mdash;will make up the league, which last year functioned as a nine-team circuit.</p><p>Gone are Marion, O.; Milwaukee, Wise, and Louisville, Ky., all of whom have withdrawn for various reasons. Marion and Milwaukee have suspended operations for one year, retaining their franchises, but Louisville reportedly has made no such move.</p><p>Frank Gallagher of Detroit, president of the IHL for the fifth straight year, looks for another fine season.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel that the reduction from nine teams to six is a change for the better,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We now have a more compact, closely-knit league. The calibre of play should be higher, too. I see no reason why this should not be one of our best seasons.&rdquo;</p><p>Gallagher, who will be assisted by Bill Clements in his duties, pointed out that no members of the original four-team International League are still competing. &ldquo;Toledo is our oldest club,&rdquo; he stated, &ldquo;along with Grand Rapids. All of the others are comparative newcomers.&rdquo;</p><p>Training camps were set up for all six IHL teams prior to the start of the season. Johnstown and Grand Rapids were at Niagara Falls, Ft. Wayne at Stratford, Ontario, Toledo at Woodstock, Ontario, Cincinnati at the Verdun rink in suburban Montreal and Troy at its own Hobart Arena in the Ohio city.</p><p>There was only one coaching change during the summer, bringing Nelson Podqlsky, former Detroit and Indianapolis player, to Troy. Podolsky, who will also play for the Bruins, replaced Norm McAtee, who had been at the helm of that club ever since it joined the IHL.</p><p>Edgar (Chirp) Brenchley is back at Johnstown, Pat Wilson at Ft. Wayne, Roly McLenahan at Cincinnati, Doug McCaig at Toledo and Norm Grinke at Grand Rapids. All are expected to play once again.</p><p>There was one major trade during the summer months, a transaction which brought three-time International League all-star Goalie Bill Tibbs to Troy from Toledo.</p><p>In return for Tibbs, Toledo got Forwards Julius Swick and Rod McElroy and Goalie Doug Coxon, picked up by Troy in the draft of players of the defunct International League clubs. However, according to reports, neither Coxon nor McElroy are with the Mercurys at the present time.</p><h2>Talent From Wings</h2><p>Troy, which has completed a working agreement with the Detroit Red Wings of the National League, is said to have received about 10 players from the Red Wings. Little Steve Gaber again will be back with the Bruins, who Will have a big turnover in personnel.</p><p>Cincinnati, which has captured the IHL and United States senior hockey titles for the past two years, is losing a number of its top players to the professional ranks. The Mohawks probably will have only five or six holdovers from the team which beat out Marion to win the 1953-54 IHL crown and then defeated Johnstown in the playoffs to sweep the senior championship.</p><p>Not too much is known about the makeup of the other four teams in the circuit, although Ft. Wayne is said to be strengthened and Johnstown is expected to ice another speedy, well-conditioned crew.</p><p>Player limit of each squad will be 14, it was decided at a recent IHL meeting. It was also stipulated that each of the six clubs in the league should have at least three over-aged juniors&mdash;just out of junior hockey and over 20 years of age&mdash;on their rosters in order to inject more youth into the conference.</p><p>The way the schedule has been set up, each team will play 6 0 games, beginning in mid-October and ending in mid-March. Thirty will be at home, 30 on the road, with 12 against each of the other five outfits in the IHL. This compares with last year&rsquo;s 64-game schedule.</p><h2>Troy Terror</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0867/1123370-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="588" height="615"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NELS PODOLSKY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tightly-knit IHL Change For Better

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01193/1123401-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY HANNIGAN</b></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Edmonton Flyers, very much up in the air and plagued with holdouts, suspensions and such, have made a three-point landing.</p><p>Ray Hannigan, whose refusal to come to terms resulted in his indefinite suspension by coach Bud Poile, has seen the light. And with the signing of Larry Zeidel, another doubtful starter who had both Poile and managing director Jim Paul worried, the Flyer roster is now at full strength&hellip;barely in time.</p><p>Hannigan the 27-year-old native of Schumacher, Ont., has always been an asset to the Flyers, and his return bodes well for their chances this season.</p><p>In 1953 he tallied a pair of vital goals to keep the Flyers&rsquo; playoff chances alive against Calgary, and his 30 goals during the 1953-54 season brought a gleam of pure joy to the eyes of Poile, and managing-director Jim Paul.</p><p>Hannigan broke into hockey with Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League.</p><h2>Paid High Price</h2><p>Bronco Horvath has also been signed. At 24 a veteran of Springfield and Syracuse in the AHL, he is a neat stickhandler and should justify the price Poile paid to get him. In all three players were sent to Eddie Shore of the Syracuse brass for the Brone.</p><p>Horvath will centre Johnny Bucyk and Vie Stasiuk on one of Poile&rsquo;s formations, and they should constitute one of the beefiest units in the league. Jerry Melynk, up from the junior Edmonton Oil Kings will operate between leftwinger Enio Sclisizzi and Bob Rawlyk, while Normie Ullman, another ex-King star is destined to see service with Ed Stankiewicz and Hannigan.</p><p>The only doubtful starter in this selection is Ullman, whose appearances on the ice to date have been limited. Should Poile decide to hold Ullman out until he&rsquo;s had time to settle in more thoroughly, defenceman Steve Hrymnak will be moved up temporarily.</p><p>Glen Hall will be between the Edmonton pipes this season, with Zeidel, Hrymnak, Al Arbour, Hugh Coffin and Eddie Zeniuk providing the protection.</p><h2>Returns To Fold<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hannigan and Zeidel Sign, Flyers At Full Strength

<p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Al Leader, president of the Western Hockey League, is a man with the right to be optimistic.</p><p>&ldquo;All six teams are solid financially,&rdquo; Leader said recently. &ldquo;The brand of hockey should be improved from last year, although that will be better determined when the National League squads* reduce and send players to this league.&rdquo; &middot;</p><p>In this respect the WHL is lucky indeed, as all National Hockey League clubs except Toronto Maple Leafs have connections with the westerners.</p><p>Attendance figures helped bring the radiant smile to Leader&rsquo;s face. While circuits in other parts of the country are woefully depressed by dropping attendance, the westerners can boast of substantial agins. In 1949 the WHL drew 892, 582 fans to their rinks; last season they could count receipts from 1,036,705 spectators, no mean boost at the gate. The 1952-53 season saw higher attendance at 1,105,840, but there were seven clubs in the loop then as compared to the six in operation last year.</p><p>So good is the WHL&rsquo;s reputation that other cities are begging for entry. Winnipeg, with a new arena, is a strong candidate for a berth in 1955-56, and Portland, currently in the process of erecting an arena to seat 8,000, may return the folowing year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02135/1123432-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="306" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Leader</b></figcaption></div><p>Players trades have been numerous. Saskatoon has replaced veteran Chuck Rayner with Bev Bentley, sub netminder last year with the parent New York Rangers. Dale Anderson, up from Saskatchewan senior ranks, left winger Murray Wilkie, last season with Cleveland Barons and George Robertson, who had a 76-point record last year with Sydney Millionaires of the Maritime league, have joined the club.</p><p>Edmonton has lost Don Poile, who in the 1953-54 season took the rookie award, and forward Marcel Bonin, both to the NHL Wings.</p><p>Vancouver has lost Gump Worsley to Rangers and have Johnny Bower instead; New Westminster Royals have acquired Guyle Fielder from Seattle, plus Frank Dotten, a new coach, while Billy Reay, now guiding Victoria Cougars, has Pete Durham, acquired in a pre-season deal with New Westminster. Durham, however, is on the holdout list.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Healthy WHL Pleases Leader

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;It would be the best hockey league in the world,&rdquo; said Max Silverman, president and coach of the Sudbury Wolves, Allan Cup finalists last season, while here for an exhibition game with Fort Wayne Komets, in discussing his pet plan of combining senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA and NOHA teams in an interlocking schedule.</p><p>Max has been advocating such a setup for the last two years, and feels that the ball should start rolling to that end not later than the first of the year. &ldquo;New faces in northern and southern Ontario senior hockey games would be real attractions, because that&rsquo;s what the fans want,&rdquo; said Max.</p><p>&ldquo;Just look at what we did the last six days&mdash;five games at North Bay, Sudbury, Windsor and Stratford, and we have two more billed, which will make eight in ten days. I do not suggest that OHA and NOHA teams should play that often during the season&rsquo;s schedule, neither would they have to.&rdquo;</p><p>It was explained to Max that the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA clubs nursed the idea of interlocking with the NOHA this season, and later withdrew a unanimous motion that negotiations to that end be opened, the drawback being one of expense. Max snorted at the expense by explaining that it would cost each team about $250 to make a trip by plane, adding that &ldquo;any team that can&rsquo;t stand that cost shouldn&rsquo;t be in senior hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;Look,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we played Windsor Bulldogs on Monday night, flew to Windsor for the return game the next night and then played here (Stratford) Wednesday night. It took us about two hours and a half to fly to Windsor, and we leave Stratford at 1:00 a.m. and will be back home at 3:30 a.m. I&rsquo;ll betcha that your teams down here, who usually travel by cars or bus, need more time than that to make out-of-town trips for their OHA games.&rdquo;</p><p>In that the Sudbury hockey boss was absolutely correct, as h&middot; touched on the additional expense for games in Northern Ontario, stating quite emphatically that the attraction of more teams and new faces would more than compensate for the added cost and would be reflected in the increased attendance at games in both the OHA and NOHA.</p><p>He was quite convinced in his mind that the plan could be worked out satisfactorily for all clubs concerned if a central meeting was held and all problems ironed out. &ldquo;We would have to set a salary limit, such as now prevails in the OHA group,&rdquo; said Max, &ldquo;but there isn&rsquo;t the least bit of doubt in my mind that every club would benefit financially.&rdquo;</p><p>His Idea would be to have the two. senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; groups interlock, followed by the top teams in each group deciding their champion&laquo; in separate playoffs. After that the champions of the OHA and the NOHA would meet in a playoff series for the Ontario title and th&middot; right to advance into the Allan Cup playdowns.</p><p>The idea is not a new one, and Silverman is recognized as the originator. Of the OHA club officials. Coach Murph Chamberlain of the Windsor Bulldogs has been the staunchest booster, while the other five clubs although not unalterably opposed to the plan have some qualms over the drain it would make on their bucks office.</p><h2>Still Dreaming</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0397/1123463-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="561" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Max Shrugs Off Expense, Waxes Hot On ‘Dream’ Sked

<h2>After the Brawl Is Over</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>d Stankiewicz and Dale Anderson have the doubtful honor of starting the first outstanding brawl in the young WHL season. Both battled on the ice and in the penalty box to earn 15 minute penalties. As usual, the referee won.</p><h2>Gets First Shutout</h2><p>Johnny Bower, who joined the Vancouver Canucks when Gump Worsley was hoisted up to New York Rangers, returned to the western scene from Cleveland Barons of the American League just in time to rack up the first shutout of the WHL season October 3 when he blanked Calgary Stampeders 3-0.</p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01163/1123525-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="610" height="222"></div><h3>TUESDAY, OCT. 5 Vancouver 5, Victoria 8</h3><p><b>VANCOUVER</b>&mdash;Sparked by the goal-scoring efforts of Harry Dick, Bill Chalmers, Skip McKay, Doug Adam and Freddy Brown, Vancouver Canucks won the league opener, 5-3.</p><p>Cougar scorers were Colin Kilburn, Mickey Keating and Andy Hebenton.</p><p><b>Edmonton 5, Saskatoon 3</b></p><p><b>EDMONTON</b>&mdash;Climaxed by a lastminute brawl in the penalty box, Edmonton Flyers outscored Saskatoon Quakers 5-3 to officially open the loop schedule.</p><p>Hugh Coflin slammed in two goals and Bronco Horvath, Ed Stankiewicz and Viv Stasiuk rounded out the Flyer tallying.</p><p>Saskatoon snipers were Chuck Holdaway, Vic Lynn and Murray Wilkie.</p><p>When Stankiewicz and defenceman Dale Anderson, tucked away in the penalty box for differences of opinion, resumed battling after getting five-minute penalties, a general brawl broke out. Both offenders were given additional 10-minute misconducts and the automatic fine that goes with them, $10 each.</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6</h3><p><b>New Westminster 3, Vancouver 2</b></p><p><b>NEW WESTMINSTER</b>&mdash;Rookie left winger Gerry Penner scored the winning goal in the third period as New Westminster Royals opened their WHL season with a 3-2 victory over Vancouver Canucks,</p><p>Other Royals scorers were Motto McLean and Gord Fashoway. Dale Sweeny accounted for both Vancouver goals.</p><p><b>Victoria 3, Calgary 2</b></p><p><b>VICTORIA</b>&mdash;Goals by Doug &lsquo;Anderson, Wayne Brown and Gene Achtymichuk gave Victoria Cougars a flying start over Calgary Stampeders, 3-2.</p><h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8</h3><p><b>Vancouver 3, Calgary 0</b></p><p><b>VANCOUVER</b>&mdash;Vancouver Canucks registered the first shutout victory of the WHL season here, blanking Calgary Stampeders 3-0.</p><p>Johnny Bower turned in &lsquo;a standout performance as Dale Sweeney, Jack Lancien and Doug Adam pounded the Calgary net before 2,500 fans. Bower has taken over the goaling job vacated by Lome &ldquo;Gump&rdquo; Worsley, no with New York Rangers of the NHL.</p><h2>That Professional Touch</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02131/1123518-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1160" height="724"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHUCK RAYNER</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p>George Stockwell, Trainer of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, uses and endorses Bike supports and Bike Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">TOMLIN</div><p>NELSON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>A ding-dong race for league honors seems to be in the offing for Western International League hockey fans this winter. Plenty of changes have been and are still being made.</p><p>Biggest changes will be made at Nelson. The Leafs, defending champions of the league, have come up with a complete &ldquo;new deal&rdquo;. They have a new coach in &ldquo;Prince Charlie&rdquo; Rayner of NHL fame and a new working agreement with the New York Rangers. Just what will happen in Nelson is a complete mystery.</p><p>At this writing, the executive has not released any information. There is no way of knowing who will wear the green and white this season.</p><p>Norm Larsen&rsquo;s Kimberley Dynamiters, who finished on top in the regular league play last winter will lose Les Lilley, top scorer in the loop a year ago but have added two husky defensemen. They are Gerry Barre, who is returning after spending a year overseas and Ted Lebodia, ex-Seattle Bomber rear-guard.</p><p>The Spokane Flyers, who will be in their mammoth new stadium before too many games are played, will have some new faces. Roy McBride will miss the services of &ldquo;Long John&rdquo; Reeve who will play defense for the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>Larry Plante, a 6&rsquo; 3&rdquo;, 220 pound youngster up from the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Alberta Junior League is being groomed to fill his shoes. Forward Don Clarke from the same team is also in camp. Returnees include Doug Toole, Bill Ramsden, Hughie Scott and Captain Red Tilson Tilson last season became the first player to score 100 points in league play.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03115/1123556-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="304" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Les Lilley</b></figcaption></div><p>Trail Smokies have signed a new leader in the person of Clint Albright, former Ranger forward. Last seoson&rsquo;s playing coach, Moe Young, will return as a player. Others coming back include Bobby Kromm, Johnny Rypien, Kenny Cook, Gordie Robertson and Maniago, Newcomers are Dick Palequin, defenseman and Bill Laliberte, forward from Amherst, N. S. Gilles Desrosiers, centre, a Montreal boy who played last season with Gerry Plamondon&rsquo;s Matane Red Rocks, Ken McTeer, a 21 year old forward up from Calgary Junior Buffaloes, and Glen Smith, Bud Andrews and Bill Fletcher, all former members of the Moose Jaw Millers.</p><p>It promises to be an interesting winter of hockey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-03

Revamped WIL Promises Ding-Dong Race For Honors

<p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>UELPH, Ont.&mdash;Guelph Biltmores of the Ontario Junior Hockey League are resigned to losing the services of their star player, but they don&rsquo;t intend to let him go without compensation from New York Rangers.</p><p>Billy McCreary, 20-year-old left winger, has received a &ldquo;very attractive&rdquo; offer from the Western Hockey League&rsquo;s Vancouver Canucks, a farm club of the National Hockey League Rangers.</p><p>Roy Mason, general manager of the Biltmores, said Wednesday:</p><p>&ldquo;We have a chance to purchase a top flight junior player who would be a suitable replacement for McCreary but his asking price is high.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve put a lot of money into McCreary for the last three years and can&rsquo;t afford to lose him without moving to keep up the team&rsquo;s strength.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Vancouver Gets McCreary

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0477/1123656-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg"></div><p><b>Only $2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off season months. January to June inclusive.</p><p><b>It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 26 issues.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-04

FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01168/1123625-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL MALONEY</b></figcaption></div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>While distractions like bingo and wrestling were keeping Buck Boucher&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators idle in a hockey sense, front office gentry were working overtime signing talent&hellip;in this case Phil Maloney, centerman who gave the Senators such a boost last season.</p><p>Blocked during the early part of last week from practising because of the obovementioned indoor &ldquo;sports&rdquo;. Boucher&rsquo;s boys were hard at it later in preparation for their Quebec Hockey League opener against Montreal Royals, and the addition of Maloney, a neat playmaker who has always been something of an ice general lent the Ottawans noticeable strength.</p><p>Last year the Senators turned back the Royals in the inaugural, and Boucher&rsquo;s boys had high hopes of repeating this year.</p><h2>Changes in View</h2><p>While the team is pretty well set for the first two games at least, it seems evident that changes will be made&hellip;perhaps sweeping ones, when they come.</p><p>A pair of wingers is Boucher&rsquo;s chief aim in life at the moment, and rinkside rumor has it that the Barber Poles are currently negotiating with several other clubs.</p><p>The Senators will be counting on the Maloney-Bep Guidolin-Leo Gravelie line for the scoring punch they figure they&rsquo;ll need. Maloney is a clever pivot and he could find a few faster-breaking wings than Gravelle and Guidolin.</p><h2><b>It Won&rsquo;t Be Easy</b></h2><p>Opposition from other clubs in the Quebec loop looms tough. Shawinigan Falls, bolstered considerably by the addition from the NHL Canadiens of young Bob Turner, seem determined to find some other resting place in the standing besides last. Roger Leger and Kenny Reardon have been actively lining up talent toward this end, and claim that Turner is rated the best prospect the Habs have seen for some time. He&rsquo;s had a year&rsquo;s experience and is from Regina.</p><p>Also on the reveiving end are Quebec Aces. Since their affiliation as a Detroit Red Wing farm club, prospects have been bright for the Aces, with Punch Imlach singing the praises of the Detroiters and Jack Toupin warbling the accompaniment. Toupin takes over from Gerry Brown as coach.</p><p>Rollie Hebert&rsquo;s Chicoutimi Sagueneens have been rated &ldquo;sleepers&rdquo; this season, this based on the free-handed way which Hebert has bee shedding players with little regard where the heads rolled</p><p>To date Jean-Paul Lamirande, veteran defenseman who saw action with New York Rangers and the old New Haven club of the American League, has joined Gerry Claude and Fern. Perreault in the discard, and Sherman White was destined for Shawinigan Falls before he decided that retirement was the prefered strategy. No replacements have yet been named.</p><h2>He Fills Buck&rsquo;s Bill</h2><h2>The Third Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02119/1123618-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="561" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BEP GUIDOLIN</b></figcaption></div><h2>Fast Breaking Wing</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0393/1123611-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="1168" height="1573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO GRAVELLE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0016-01

Boucher’s Big Line Gives Senators Punch

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;This Northern Ontario senior hockey league is going to be the best in the country&rdquo;. Thus commented LYLE WISEMAN, formerly with the Detroit Red Wings organization at Omaha, Indianapolis, then later with Windsor Bulldogs after a sojourn in the Quebec loop. Lyle is now with the SOO GREYHOUNDS&hellip;CARL PALANGIO, brother of PETE PALANGIO, long-time Sultan of hockey in NORTH BAY, was elected president of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. JACK WILD of SWASTIKA won the vice-presidency, while veteran LORNE MILLER of NORANDA, the Grand Old Man of northern hockey, was re-elected to his usual spot as secretary-treasurer for the umpteenth time. The executive committee is composed of DOUG PRESTON of KIRKLAND LAKE, CHARLES CAMSELL of HAILEYBURY, GEORGE ANDERSON of KAPUSKASING, RED MALTBY of COPPER CLIFF, CLIFFORD THOMSON of TIMMINS, CHARLIE MURPHY of SAULT STE. MARIE, W.J. MCTAGGART of NORANDA, and JIMMY ASPIN of NORTH BAY&hellip;</p><p>Storm warning? Many hockey observers feel that the NOHA is grooming itself to be recognized as a separate branch of the CAHA. Basis for this opinion is the very strong resolution urging the abolition of the draft system set up by the OHA, its governing body. &ldquo;Hell, we&rsquo;re growing up in Northern Ontario, let&rsquo;s act right now,&rdquo; one very prominent Northern Ontario hockey leader said. A strong bid to bring back Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey up North will be made&hellip;</p><p>All Northern Ontario extends best wishes to the wonderful people in St. Thomas who have had a dream of eight long years realized in the building of a beautiful $500,000 Memorial Centre. The city of 19,000 can certainly be justly proud of this truly marvelous edifice of hockey. A crowd of 3,000 was on hand to watch Detroit Red Wings play Cleveland Barons during the official opening. The money was raised over the past eight years and the Memorial Center is a fitting memorial to St. Thomas men who died in the Second World War. Congratulations to everyone in St. Thomas for a job well done&hellip;</p><p>The big question in Northern Ontario senior hockey: Where&rsquo;s GORDIE HEALE going to play this season? The captain of Sudbury Wolves during their march to the Allan Cup finals last season is through with MAXIE SILVERMAN, and vice-versa. The SOO INDIANS are hot after Heale&hellip;</p><p>OUCH!!! North Bay Trappers dropped a 10-0 decision to Sudbury Wolves in their first exhibition game. BRITT JESSUP, well-known sports editor of the NORTH BAY NUGGET told THE HOCKEY NEWS by long-distance telephone: &ldquo;The Fans Are Really Down in The Mouth Over That One!&rdquo; Cause for the feeling is the fact that LEO LAMOUREUX coached the Trappers to a near-win over Buffalo Bisons of the AHL only a few days before. At last report, our good friend BRITT was on his nineteenth towel&hellip;</p><p>Popular TOMMY WILSON, a redhot prospect who starred as a junior with Barrie Flyers, sustained a dislocated vertebrae during a rugged workout with SUDBURY WOLVES&hellip;The brilliant forward line of NICK TOMIUK, TATTER MCCLELLAN and MAUNO KAUPPI of Sudbury may be broken up unless TOMIUK agrees to terms with wily Maxie Silverman&hellip;in fact, Silverman is having trouble with Mauno and Tatter&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01141/1123788-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="307" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Lamoureux</b></figcaption></div><p>Air travel is a favorite with the Allan Cup finalists, Sudbury Wolves&hellip;they have flown to WINDSOR and STRATFORD for exhibition games&hellip;FORT WAYNE KOMETS will make a Northern Ontario tour&hellip;PEMBROKE LUMBER KINGS must be laughing over this one&mdash;last season in the final regular league game, Maxie Silverman shifted his regular goalie, AL MILLER, to a forward position. PEMBROKE won by a lopsided score which ruined any chance Soo Indians had of making the playoffs. It all caused a furore. Little did the teams realize then that the CAHA would put a stop to such shenanigans by inserting a new rule that &ldquo;a goalie must confine his activities entirely to net-minding&hellip;&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0283/1123781-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="302" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Miller</b></figcaption></div><p>IT&rsquo;S ABOUT TIME! Referees of the NOHA and OHA met in TORONTO to thrash out pros and cons of their job. Object: to standardize calls on boarding, interference, etc. Reason: every spring when the NORTH battles the SOUTH, criticism is loud and heavy over variance in interpretations of the rules when NOHA referees work with OHA referees. Standardization of such calls will do much to give the players some idea of just where they stand during the all-important All-Ontario games&hellip;</p><p>VIP &ldquo;THE VIPPER&rdquo; PALLADINO, the tiny and immensely popular Sudbury product, is right back home. He&rsquo;s signed a contract with the Sudbury Wolves&hellip;WIMPEY JONES, sought by the Soo Indians for the past two years, finally landed in the Wigwam for the 1954-55 season. Quipped WHIZ MCNAUGHTON, former manager of the BRAVES: &ldquo;Gee, Wimp must have got lost!&rdquo;&hellip;</p><p>STAN MAXWELL, former PCHL standout, is back with his home-town North Bay Trappers&hellip;HUB BEAUDRY,&rsquo; hard-driving winger with Sudbury Wolves, reports that his fractured ankle suffered in the Eastern Canada Allan Cup series last season, is just as good as new. That&rsquo;s good news to all hockey fans because Hub is certainly well-liked all over the great Northland!&hellip;GORDIE KERR has been sold to NIAGARA FALLS CATARACTS by the Soo Indians. Gordie was a big hit in Northern Ontario last season&hellip;</p><p>MARCEL CLEMENTS, storm-center all last season when Sudbury fought with Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, over rights, will play all his senior hockey with the Soo Greyhounds. He played with the Soo Indians last season&hellip;All signs point to a record-breaking attendance in Northern Ontario hockey this season. Sales of booster and season tickets all over the Northland have been terrific&hellip;</p><p>ROY &ldquo;WINK&rdquo; WILSON, a NAPANEE product who starred in junior hockey with KINGSTON and in senior hockey with TIMMINS, later being a scout for DETROIT RED WINGS for 10 years, is now the first manager of PULLAR STADIUM in SAULT STE. MARIE, Michigan. Roy assisted in the organization of TILLSONBURG&rsquo;S new arena in 194 9 and is now making quite a hit with Northern hockey fans. Welcome to our Northern Paradise, Roy! Best of luck!</p><p>Now let&rsquo;s look at the financial structure of the NOHA&mdash;Cash position is $15,722 in addition to $8,500 in Dominion of Canada bonds. NOHA playoffs brought the association $14,744 while the OHA playoffs brought in $3,389. Draft payments amounted to $900 with professional payments $100. Excess of receipts over disbursements the past season amounted to $1,157. The NOHA is giving more and more aid to minor hockey. And, fans, don&rsquo;t forget to address all your letters to NOHA PUCK PARADE to me, 164 Gore Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario&hellip;it&rsquo;s always wonderful to hear from hockey fans everywhere&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><p>PENTICTON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>One new coach, one coach at the reins of a different team, lots of new faces, a few old ones returning and no team standing still seems to be the story to date in the Okanagan Senior Hockey League. Every team in the league seems anxious to make changes in an effort to come up with an improved team over the one they had a year ago.</p><p>The only new coach in the league is Alex Shibicky, former New Westminster Royals mentor. Shibicky has taken over leadership of the Kelowna Packers, league playoff finalists last spring.</p><p>He has his team in training high-gear in preparation for the forth-coming season which promises to be the best in league history. Most of last year&rsquo;s team, with the exception of goaler Doug Stevenson, has returned. Returnees include Mike Durban, Don Culley, Jim Middleton and Joe Connors. Howie Amundrud, Brian Roche and Frank Kuly, who were with the club two seasons ago have returned for pre-season training. Willie Schmidt, with the Penticton Vees when they went down to the Allan Cup finals in 1952-53, and coach of the Nelson Maple Leafs a year ago, is reported to be lining up with Kelowna.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0439/1123833-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="308" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</b></figcaption></div><p>George Agar&rsquo;s Vernon Canadians are showing signs of making a big noise in play this winter. With many of last season&rsquo;s players returning, and with the addition of Hal Gordon, who played brilliant goal for the Kamloops Elks for the past two seasons, and of Frank King, high scoring forward, the Canucks loom as a real threat. King, you will recall, was with the Sudbury Wolves of the NOHA last season. His five goals and three assists were tops for Max Silverman&rsquo;s boys in their Allan Cup final series against the Vees. &lsquo;</p><p>Phil Hergesheimer, coach of the Packers for three years has gone north and will handle the Kamloops Elks. With last season&rsquo;s stalwarts and several talented newcomers, &ldquo;Phantom Phil&rdquo; could produce a contender. His big problem 13 to replace Hal Gordon in the nets. It promises to b&middot; no small task.</p><p>At the other end of the valley, the Penticton Vees loom as tha team to beat. This is the team that won the Allan Cup last spring. This is the &ldquo;Cinderella Team&rdquo; of hockey. This is the team that will represent Canada in the Olympics in an attempt to win back the hockey crown from the Moscow Dynamos. How can this team be given anything but the favorite&rsquo;s role. The fifteen players who defeated the Sudbury Wolves last May have returned. Grant Warwick, their coach, has two new faces in camp. They are Gordie Cowan and Mike Shabaga.</p><p>Cowan was with Sydney of the Maritime Major League previous to coming to Penticton and Shabaga last played with the Trail Smoke-Eaters of the WIL. Both men are centres and are the fruits of Warwick&rsquo;s plan to add strength down the middle. The experience gained by the Vees on the road to the Allan Cup makes them the pick of the league for the present time at least.</p><h2>Old Face, New View</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0352/1123826-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="1178" height="1492"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX SHIBICKY</b></figcaption></div><h2>Hunting Elks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0529/1123819-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="570" height="1176"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-04

Shibicky Cracks Whip Over Kelowna Packers

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p><b>(As seen in The Ottawa Citizen)</b></p><p>Things will be a little quieter around the Auditorium this winter and a little livelier around a place called North Sydney.</p><p>The reason for the statement becomes obvious, of course, when the reader learns of the imminent departure of Alex Connel for points east. When it comes to high jinks, practical jokes; and allied activities around a hockey club, Alex rates in a class by himself.</p><p>Connell, who has been a familiar figure around the local emporium for several years, will be taking a new post, at North Sydney soon, a position Alex says, which should be a most Interesting and rewarding one.</p><p>Alex will be working, in the main, with youngsters this winter, organizing hockey teams from bantam up, and also handling the local junior squad. He will, in addition, be in charge of front office duties at the local arena.</p><p>&ldquo;There Is no more senior hockey down that way,&rdquo; said Connell the other night, &ldquo;and they have decided to start reorganizing the youngsters and make their Junior team the big one.&rdquo;</p><h2>New Four-Team Junior League</h2><p>According to Connell, there will be a four-team Junior loop in operation this winter, with clubs from North Sydney, Glace Bay, Sydney and New Waterford in the hunt.</p><p>&ldquo;Mainly,&rdquo; says Connell, &ldquo;my job will be to handle the junior club, but I am also going to help organize other youngsters somewhat along the fashion of the Juvenile League wich has been operating at the Auditorium here for several years.&rdquo;</p><p>In this endeavor, Connell should achieve no small success, if the record of the local Juvenile League over the last several seasons can be taken as any criterion. Without the co-operation of Auditorium officials in the way of providing ice, and Connell in the way of guidance, youngsters in Ottawa below Junior ability would have fared poorly for hockey in recent winters.</p><h2>A Hot Story From The Spokesman</h2><p>If Connell is called upon to speak to the assembled &ldquo;multitudes&rdquo; of North Sydney, it will, indeed, be. a rare occasion and one to remember, especially if he tells them a couple of his more famous hockey yarns.</p><p>Like that one about the year the old Maroons held Fall training around St. Paul or thereabouts under the direction of Tommy Gorman, who had just moved to Montreal from Chicago.</p><p>Anyway, this night the team played an exhibition game, and after the contest, a young reporter entered the Montreal room looking for a hot &ldquo;story&rdquo;.</p><p>The players, naturally, directed the youth to Connell who was undressing in the far corner. Alex, they said, was the spokesman for the club and only he could release inside Information.</p><p>Approached, Connell at first pretended ignorance of any hot news around the club, later admitted there was one item but it was just too big to release at the moment.</p><p>If the youngster needed Incentive to dig, the mention of such a &ldquo;story&rdquo; was enough to really get him Interested. He promised absolute secrecy if Connell would give him the story, even going so far as to offer his Boy Scout&rsquo;s word of honor.</p><h2>The Greatest Player, Ever</h2><p>&ldquo;Well, if that&rsquo;s the case,&rdquo; said the Ottawa Fireman, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give you the story, but you can&rsquo;t release it until I let you know. It would cause a lot of trouble&rdquo;.</p><p>Whereupon Connell advised the cub in whispers that Montreal had signed the greatest hockey player ever to wear a pair of skates. This fellow, said Alex, would make even Howie Morenz look like a rank novice.</p><p>&ldquo;Who is he?&rdquo; queried gullible Gil.</p><p>&ldquo;Suddy Gilmour,&rdquo; answered Connell with a poker face.</p><p>True to his &ldquo;promise&rdquo;, the reporter let the cat out of the bag the same night&mdash;as Connell knew he would&mdash;and the story was picked up by news agencies and flashed across Canada the next morning.</p><p>Before noon, Tom Arnold of the Maroon club, had Tay Pay on the phone asking what the hell, and Who was this new player he had signed without consulting Montreal?</p><p>&ldquo;Who&rsquo;s that?&rdquo; asked an understandably puzzled T.P.</p><p>&ldquo;This Suddy Gilmour,&rdquo; screamed Arnold.</p><p>&ldquo;Suddy Gilmour?&rdquo; echoed Gorman, almost dropping the phone With laughter, &ldquo;he played for the Silver Seven.&rdquo;</p><p>Like we said, things should be a lot livelier in North Sydney this winter.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Behind The Scene

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01120/1123888-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2>Across</h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Leaf rookie.</p><p>5&mdash;Channel Islands (abbr).</p><p>7&mdash;Nickname of Heron, ex Maple Leaf player.</p><p>8&mdash;First name of 34 across.</p><p>9&mdash;Denotes number of clubs Cal Gardner has played with.</p><p>11&mdash;One of the Rangers is called this.</p><p>12&mdash;Position played by pictured player.</p><p>14&mdash;Lee Fogolin has been sidelined with an&mdash;injury.</p><p>15&mdash;An eye.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Drillon, former NHL star.</p><p>18&mdash;Warren Godfrey was born in this month (abbr).</p><p>19&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>21&mdash;Northern Ireland (abbr).</p><p>22&mdash;North East (abbr).</p><p>2 3&mdash;Played briefly with Rangers in 1953-54, called Billy.</p><p>25&mdash;This Bruin recently retired.</p><p>28&mdash;Ezinicki is familiar with this term.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of a Montreal defenseman.</p><p>31&mdash;An AHL coach.</p><p>34&mdash;WHL&rsquo;s top rookie of 1953-54.</p><h2>Down</h2><p>1&mdash;Metro Prystai once played with this club.</p><p>2&mdash;Reise&rsquo; initials.</p><p>3&mdash;&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan shoots this way.</p><p>4&mdash;Short for first name of a Boston forward.</p><p>5&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Tim Horton</p><p>6&mdash;A requisite for signing contracts.</p><p>8&mdash;Initials of the Habitants&rsquo; coach.</p><p>10&mdash;Jimmy Peters&rsquo; birthplace.</p><p>11&mdash;Of (Fr.).</p><p>13&mdash;Mickoski&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>15&mdash;Order of Merit (abbr).</p><p>16&mdash;First name of pictured player.</p><p>20&mdash;Elmer Lach did this recently.</p><p>23&mdash;First name of Lewicki of Rangers.</p><p>24&mdash;A former Toronto captain.</p><p>26&mdash;Hockey players do this at a special time on the day of a game.</p><p>27&mdash;Doug Harvey is an exponet of this type of shot.</p><p>30&mdash;First name of Clancy&rsquo;s predecessor.</p><p>32&mdash;Artificial language.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of an NHL manager.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>Across</h3><p>1&mdash;Hassard</p><p>7&mdash;Broda</p><p>9&mdash;Reise</p><p>11&mdash;Roy</p><p>12&mdash;Nelson</p><p>13&mdash;Hap</p><p>15&mdash;M.E.</p><p>16&mdash;O.L.A.</p><p>17&mdash;Mar.</p><p>18&mdash;Yds.</p><p>19&mdash;Ar.</p><p>20&mdash;R.S.</p><p>21&mdash;Lee</p><p>22&mdash;Thomson</p><p>25&mdash;Yaw</p><p>27&mdash;Leclair</p><p>31&mdash;Al.</p><p>32&mdash;Edmond</p><h3>Down</h3><p>1&mdash;Harry</p><p>2&mdash;Skinner</p><p>3&mdash;Abel</p><p>4&mdash;R.R.</p><p>5&mdash;Dorohoy</p><p>6&mdash;May</p><p>8&mdash;Donald</p><p>10&mdash;S.E.</p><p>14&mdash;Passes</p><p>15&mdash;Marshall</p><p>17&mdash;Marty</p><p>21&mdash;L.N.</p><p>23&mdash;Owe</p><p>24&mdash;Sold</p><p>26&mdash;Arn.</p><p>28&mdash;Ce.</p><p>29&mdash;A.M.</p><p>30&mdash;10.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0134/1123940-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="240" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0233/1123933-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="255" height="319"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0332/1123926-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2901" height="1447"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0424/1123919-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2912" height="1847"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b> slides out of his nets in the top picture to make a daring save off the stick of Bob Armstrong of the Boston Bruins as the latter split the Canadiens&rsquo; defense and walked in on the Montreal goalie. That&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead in the background. In the lower picture the same Mr. Armstrong checks Canadiens&rsquo; Jean Beliveau (No. 4) with his stick as the latter attempts to dig a puck out of a melee. Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion moves in (right) to assist Beliveau. Canadians took the game, 4-1. This hockey action was typical of the opening of the National Hockey League this year. The games have been close with the favorites, Detroit and Canadians winning their first two starts. The Montrealers took Chicago and Boston in that order while the Wings disposed of the Leafs and the Rangers.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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October 16, 1954

QUEBEC LEAGUE

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